12-31-2011, 09:41 PM
12. A 35-year-old woman comes to the physician
because of two
12-hour episodes of dizziness over the past 3 months.
During episodes, she
experiences the acute onset of rotatory vertigo and
imbalance, decreased
hearing, tinnitus, a sense of fullness of the right
ear, and vomiting.
Examination shows a mild hearing loss of the right
ear. Which of the
following is the most likely diagnosis?
A
) Acoustic neuroma
B
) Benign positional vertigo
C
) Brain stem transient ischemic attacks
D
) Meniere's disease
E
) Viral labyrinthitis