The diagnostic value of imaging the patient with dizziness. A Bayesian approach

Archives of Neurology
M GizziS Molinari

Abstract

Imaging studies are routinely used in the evaluation of patients with dizziness. A principal concern of the ordering physician is to rule out a cerebellopontine angle (CPA) mass. The incidence of such masses in patients presenting with dizziness is quite low, however, raising the question of the value of imaging this population. To calculate the probability, using Bayes theorem, that a given patient with dizziness has a CPA mass. Meta-analysis of epidemiological data on CPA masses and of studies reporting the incidence of otologic symptoms in patients with these masses. We also conducted a study of consecutive patients with dizziness to determine the frequency of asymmetric hearing loss in this population. These data were combined in applications of Bayes theorem to calculate disease probabilities. The probability that a patient with dizziness has a CPA mass is 0.0004, indicating that 2500 imaging studies would have to be performed to identify 1 CPA mass. If patients with subjectively normal hearing are investigated (ie, those with isolated dizziness), the probability is 0.000107, indicating that 9307 scans would have to be performed to identify 1 CPA mass. If the search is restricted to those patients with dizziness and asymme...Continue Reading

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