Long-term benefit perception, complications, and device malfunction rate of bone-anchored hearing aid implantation for profound unilateral sensorineural hearing loss

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1427-1434

  Gluth, Michael B ^a   Eager, Katrise M ^a   Eikelboom, Robert H ^a   Atlas, Marcus D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hearing aid; Sensorineural hearing loss; Titanium implant

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE REGENERATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SUTURE ANCHOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNILATERAL HEARING LOSS;

ADULT; AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; COHORT STUDIES; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HEARING LOSS, UNILATERAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSSEOINTEGRATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT SELECTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SUTURE ANCHORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78649512884     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e3181f0c53e     Document Type: Article

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