Scala tympani cochleostomy II: Topography and histology

Laryngoscope

Volumn 117, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2195-2200

  Adunka, Oliver F ^a   Radeloff, Andreas ^b,c   Gstoettner, Wolfgang K ^c   Pillsbury, Harold C ^a   Buchman, Craig A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cochlear implant; Cochleostomy; Electric acoustic stimulation; Hearing preservation; Neural preservation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COCHLEA; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COCHLEOSTOMY; EAR SURGERY; ELECTRODE; HEARING LOSS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL BONE; TOPOGRAPHY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; ONTARIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCALA TYMPANI;

EID: 40349096522     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e3181453a53     Document Type: Article

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