Good speech recognition and quality-of-life scores after cochlear implantation in patients with DFNA9

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 44-49

  Vermeire, K ^a   Brokx, J P L ^a,b   Wuyts, F L ^a   Cochet, E ^a   Hofkens, A ^a   De Bodt, M ^a   Van De Heyning, P H ^a  

^a ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cochlear implantation; DFNA9; Quality of life; Sensorineural hearing loss; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT PROGRESSIVE SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATED WITH VESTIBULAR IMPAIRMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DISEASE COURSE; GENE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEINS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VESTIBULAR DISEASES;

EID: 29444443537     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mao.0000187240.33712.01     Document Type: Article

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