Abstract
A statistical study on patients With vertigo who visited Kyoto Red Cross Hospital during the past five years revealed that such patients occupied 8% of all the out-patients visting the department of otolaryngology and that the average number of such patients was 350 a year.
About 60% of such patients were referred from other departments including neuromedicine and neurosurgery, the latter two sending about one half of all the patients referred.
The number of cases with Meniere's disease appeared to decrease during the years while the number of patients with vertigo of peripheral causes increased.
Patients with chronic otitis media were counted about 60 per year, consisting of 37% of all the patients with vertigo of peripheral causes, and 17% of all the patients with vertigo.
The high incidence of peripheral vertigo cases may reflect an increasing number of various ear surgeries.
