Fully implantable hearing aids in patients with congenital auricular atresia

Laryngoscope

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 336-340

  Siegert, Ralf ^a,c   Mattheis, Stefan ^a   Kasic, James ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b Otologics LLC   (United States)

^c PROSPER HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auricular atresia; Implantable hearing aids

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BONE ANCHORED HEARING AID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXTERNAL EAR MALFORMATION; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; MALE; MICROPHONE; MIDDLE EAR MALFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BONE CONDUCTION; EAR CANAL; EAR, MIDDLE; ELECTROMAGNETICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEARING; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, CONDUCTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TRANSDUCERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 33846817297     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e31802b6561     Document Type: Article

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