A manually operated, advance off-stylet insertion tool for minimally invasive cochlear implantation surgery

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2792-2800

  Kratchman, Louis B ^a   Schurzig, Daniel ^b   McRackan, Theodore R ^c   Balachandran, Ramya ^c   Noble, Jack H ^a   Webster III, Robert J ^a,c   Labadie, Robert F ^a,c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Advance off stylet (AOS); cochlear implant; image guided surgery; minimally invasive surgery; percutaneous cochlear implantation (PCI)

Indexed keywords

ADVANCE OFF-STYLET (AOS); CLINICAL METHODS; DRILL HOLE; ELECTRODE ARRAYS; IMAGE GUIDED SURGERY; IMAGE-GUIDED; MINIMALLY INVASIVE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PERCUTANEOUS COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION (PCI);

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); ROCK DRILLS; SURGERY;

SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

ADVANCE OFF STYLET INSERTION TECHNIQUE; ARTICLE; CADAVER; ELECTRODE; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MASTOIDECTOMY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PERCUTANEOUS COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

COCHLEA; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MICRODISSECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84866527946     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2210220     Document Type: Article

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