Abstract
A statistical review of vertigo cases treated between 1945 and 1971 at our ENT department was presented.
1. A total of 2, 885 patients, 1, 281 male and 1, 604 female, came with vertigo as the primary problem. The number grew at a progressively increasing rate. The ratio of those with vertigo to the total outpatients increased from 4.7% in 1965 to 8.4% in 1971. Those with Menière's disease also increased in number lately and reached a total of 840 cases, 359 male and 481 female. It is most prevalent in the second through fourth decades.
2. Etiologically, the majority of the cases were those of labyrinthine vertigo such as Menière's disease and syndrome.
3. Inter-departmental cooperation became more active. Consultations were exchanged with the departments of internal medicine, ophthalmology and neurosurgery, in the stated order of frequency.
4. Of the tests of vestibular functions, those found to produce positive responses more frequently were that of positional nystagmus, caloric test and Mann's test, in the order stated.
