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A case of perilymphatic fistula in blunt head injury.

Whitelaw AS, Young I

Royal Alexandra Hospital, Corsebar Road, Paisley, UK. alanswhitelaw@hotmail.com

Dizziness is a common symptom following blunt head injury. This is usually attributed to the "post-concussive" syndrome. Here we present a patient whose symptoms following head injury were a result of him having developed a perilymphatic fistula.

Published 21 November 2005 in Emerg Med J, 22(12): 921.
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