Combining perimodiolar electrode placement and atraumatic insertion properties in cochlear implantation - Fact or fantasy?

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 475-482

  Adunka, Oliver F ^a   Pillsbury, Harold C ^a   Kiefer, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cochlear implant; Electric acoustic stimulation; Hearing preservation; Intracochlear trauma; Perimodiolar electrode

Indexed keywords

ADVANCE OFFSTYLET TECHNIQUE; ARTICLE; COCHLEA; COCHLEA FENESTRA; COCHLEA INJURY; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COCHLEOSTOMY; ELECTRODE; HEARING LOSS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PERIMODIOLAR ELECTRODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BASILAR MEMBRANE; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; HUMANS; ORGAN OF CORTI; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FITTING; RUPTURE; TEMPORAL BONE;

EID: 33646526315     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: 16512553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016480500437393     Document Type: Article

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