Clinical evaluation of the Clarion CII HiFocus 1 with and without positioner

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 577-592

  Van Der Beek, F B ^a   Boermans, P P B M ^a   Verbist, B M ^a   Briaire, J J ^a   Frijns, J H M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVICE; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTRODE; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INJURY; MENIERE DISEASE; MENINGITIS; NOISE; OTOSCLEROSIS; OTOTOXICITY; PHONEME; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SUDDEN DEAFNESS; TELEMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33748592553     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.aud.0000188116.30954.21     Document Type: Article

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