[Vertigo in the elderly patient].

Among the 52 patients, aged 70 and older, who came at office for vertigo, one or more specific diagnoses were made in 36 patients (69.23 percent). The most common diagnoses being benign positional vertigo (29 percent) and Ménière's disease (15.4 percent). Other associated pathologies were identified in 38 patients (73.1 percent). The mechanisms involved are discussed.