The effectiveness of bilateral cochlear implants for severe-to-profound deafness in children: A systematic review

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1062-1071

  Sparreboom, Marloes ^a   Van Schoonhoven, Jelmer ^b   Van Zanten, Bert G A ^c   Scholten, Rob J P M ^b   Mylanus, Emmanuel A M ^a   Grolman, Wilko ^c   Maat, Bert ^d  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bilateral cochlear implants; Bimodal stimulation; Children; Cochlear implantation; Severeto profound deafness; Systematic review; Unilateral cochlear implants

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CHILD; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; EDUCATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ALGORITHMS; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CHILD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEAFNESS; EDUCATION; HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESEARCH DESIGN; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77956339127     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e3181e3d62c     Document Type: Article

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