A coated electrode carrier for cochlear implantation reduces insertion forces

Laryngoscope

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 959-963

  Radeloff, Andreas ^a   Unkelbach, Marc H ^a   Mack, Martin G ^b   Settevendemie, Claudia ^b   Helbig, Silke ^b   Mueller, Joachim ^a   Hagen, Rudolf ^a   Mlynski, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coating; Cochlear implant; Drug delivery; Hearing preservation; Insertion forces

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANT; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; ELECTRODE; HUMAN; MATERIAL COATING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALA TYMPANI; TEMPORAL BONE; IMPLANTATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; PROSTHESIS;

BIOMATERIAL;

COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; TEMPORAL BONE;

EID: 66349107958     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.20206     Document Type: Article

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