Vertigo in Children and Adolescents: Characteristics and Outcome

Table 1

Patient’s characteristics on presentation.

Total number of patients		37
Male/female		19/18
Age (years) at presentation (Mean±SD)		14±3.3
Age range (years)		6–19
Symptoms at presentation	Headache	19 (51%)
	Vomiting	11 (30%)
	Nausea	19 (51%)
	Hearing loss	8 (22%)
	Tinnitus	6 (16%)
Findings on bedside examination	Spontaneous nystagmus	10 (27%)
	Positive post-head-shaking nystagmus	6 (16%)
	Positive head-impulse test	5 (14%)
	Positional nystagmus	2 (5%)
Pathological ENG findings in the 23 completed tests		16 (70%)