Vibrant soundbridge versus conventional hearing aid in sensorineural high-frequency hearing loss: A prospective study

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 684-687

  Truy, Eric ^a,b   Philibert, Bénédicte ^c   Vesson, Jean François ^a   Labassi, Samia ^c   Collet, Lionel ^a,b  

^a EDOUARD HERRIOT HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c MED EL GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Amplification; Direct drive stimulation; Hearing aid; Middle ear; Steeply sloping high frequency hearing loss; Vibrant sound bridge

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOLOGY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING AID; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION; HOSPITALIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS; VIBRATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VIBRATION;

EID: 58149395365     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e31817156df     Document Type: Article

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