The modified ampullar approach for vestibular implant surgery: Feasibility and its first application in a human with a long-term vestibular loss

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn FEB, Issue , 2012, Pages

  van de Berg, Raymond ^a   Guinand, Nils ^b   Guyot, Jean Philippe ^b   Kingma, Herman ^a   Stokroos, Robert J ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acclimation; Adaptation; Ampullar approach; Bilateral vestibular areflexia; Bilateral vestibulopathy; Neural prosthesis; Vestibular implant; Vestibular prosthesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865857413     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2012.00018     Document Type: Article

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