Bone-anchored hearing aids: Incidence and management of postoperative complications

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 213-217

  House, John W ^a,b   Kutz Jr , Joe Walter ^a  

^a HOUSE CLINIC   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone anchored hearing aid; Complications; Hearing aids; Hearing loss

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BONE ANCHORED HEARING AID; CHILD; FEMALE; GRAFT NECROSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATING ROOM; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SKIN DEFECT; SKULL TUMOR; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MASTOID; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33846617339     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e31802c74c4     Document Type: Review

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