Eliminating the limitations of manual crimping in stapes surgery: Mid-term results of 90 patients in the nitinol stapes piston multicenter trial

Laryngoscope

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1236-1239

  Rajan, Gunesh P ^a   Diaz, Jason ^b   Blackham, Ruth ^a   Eikelboom, Robert H ^a   Atlas, Marcus D ^a   Shelton, Clough ^b   Huber, Alexander M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Crimping; Nitinol; Otosclerosis; Shape memory; Stapes piston

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; NITINOL; TITANIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HEARING; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OTOSCLEROSIS; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTHESIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RELIABILITY; STAPEDOTOMY; STAPES SURGERY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWITZERLAND; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; COHORT STUDIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, CONDUCTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STAPES SURGERY;

EID: 34347337754     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e31805c9a5c     Document Type: Article

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