Cochlear implantation via the middle fossa approach: Surgical and programming considerations

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1516-1524

  Bento, Ricardo Ferreira ^a   Bittencourt, Aline Gomes ^a   Goffi Gomez, Maria Valéria Schmidt ^a   Samuel, Paola ^a   Tsuji, Robinson Koji ^a   De Brito, Rubens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Canal wall down mastoid cavity; Chronic suppurative otitis media; Cochlear implantation; Middle fossa approach; Sensorineural hearing loss

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE REPORT; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CHOLESTEATOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EAR DISEASE; EAR SURGERY; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MALE; MASTOID; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CRANIAL FOSSA; NASOPHARYNX TUMOR; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TELEMETRY; TEMPORAL BONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CHOLESTEATOMA, MIDDLE EAR; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; CRANIAL FOSSA, MIDDLE; EAR DISEASES; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; HUMANS; MALE; MASTOID; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; OTOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TELEMETRY; TEMPORAL BONE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84870315391     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e31827137d2     Document Type: Article

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