Bilateral bone-anchored hearing aid application in children: The nijmegen experience from 1996 to 2008

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 615-623

  Dun, Catharina A J ^a   De Wolf, Maarten J F ^a   Mylanus, Emmanuel A M ^a   Snik, Ad F ^a   Hol, Myrthe K S ^a   Cremers, Cor W R J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bilateral; Bone anchored hearing aid; Children; Conductive hearing loss; Congenital hearing loss; Glasgow Children's Benefit Inventory; Speech Spatial and Qualities of Hearing Scale

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; HEARING AID; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUTURE ANCHOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHILD; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, CONDUCTIVE; HUMANS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SUTURE ANCHORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953082605     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e3181dbb37e     Document Type: Article

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