Does the bone-anchored hearing aid have a complementary effect on audiological and subjective outcomes in patients with unilateral conductive hearing loss?

Audiology and Neurotology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 159-168

  Hol, Myrthe K S ^a   Snik, Ad F M ^a   Mylanus, Emmanuel A M ^a   Cremers, Cor W R J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bone anchored hearing aid; Conductive hearing loss; Directional hearing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BINAURAL HEARING; BONE ANCHORED HEARING AID; BONE CONDUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAR; HUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; COCHLEA; DISABILITY EVALUATION; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, CONDUCTIVE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HEARING LOSS, UNILATERAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 18644379180     PISSN: 14203030     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000084026     Document Type: Article

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