Cochlear implantation in a patient with mitochondrial encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes syndrome

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 55-58

  Yasumura, Satsuki ^a   Aso, Shin ^a   Fujisaka, Michiro ^a   Watanabe, Yukio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Central nervous system; Retrocochlear function; Single photon emission computerized tomography

Indexed keywords

INSULIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COCHLEA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEARING AID; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MELAS SYNDROME; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TELEPHONE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN STEM; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DEAFNESS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MELAS SYNDROME; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037280188     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0036554021000028081     Document Type: Article

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