Ménière's disease is a disorder of the inner ear that causes attacks of vertigo and hearing loss, tinnitus, aural fullness in the involved ear. Over the past 4 decades, the Equilibrium Committee of the AAO-HNS has issued guidelines for diagnostic criteria, with the latest version being published in 1995. These criteria were reviewed in 2015 by the Equilibrium Committee, and revisions were approved at the recent meeting of the committee at the 2015 AAO-HNSF Annual Meeting. The following commentary outlines the amended and approved criteria.
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Front Oncol
January 2025
Department of Radiology, Ordos Central Hospital, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China.
Background: Improvements in the clinical diagnostic use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the identification of liver disorders have been made possible by gadolinium ethoxybenzyl diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid (Gd-EOB-DTPA). Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology is in high demand.
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January 2025
School of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck University of London, Malet St, London, WC1E 7HX, UK.
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Cardiology Oncology Collaborative Research Groupe, Faculty of Medicine, University of Algiers Benyoucef Benkhedda, Algiers, DZA.
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NHC Key Laboratory of Nuclear Technology Medical Transformation, School of Medicine, Mianyang Central Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Mianyang, 621000, China.
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