Favorable outcome of cochlear implant in VIIIth nerve deficiency

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 815-823

  Zanetti, Diego ^a   Guida, Maurizio ^b   Barezzani, Maria Grazia ^a   Campovecchi, Chiara ^a   Nassif, Nader ^a   Pinelli, Lorenzo ^a   Giordano, Lucio ^a   Olioso, Giovanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aplasia; Cochlear implant; Cochlear nerve; Hypoplasia; Malformation

Indexed keywords

AUDIOLOGY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVALUATION; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; HYPOPLASIA; IMAGING; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MEANINGFUL AUDITORY INTEGRATION SCALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE DISEASE; WORD RECOGNITION;

AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 33748302994     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mao.0000227899.80656.1d     Document Type: Review

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