Experience with the SOUNDTEC implantable hearing aid

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 211-217

  Silverstein, Herbert ^a   Atkins, James ^b   Thompson Jr , Jack H ^a   Gilman, Nancy ^a  

^a Silverstein Institute   (United States)

^b Atkins Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic hearing device; Ossicular magnet; Semi implantable hearing device; SOUNDTEC

Indexed keywords

GELFOAM; TITANIUM;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; AUDIOMETRY; DEVICE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MAGNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DEAFNESS; EAR, MIDDLE; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FITTING; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS;

EID: 15744361981     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00129492-200503000-00014     Document Type: Review

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