Cochlear implantation and single-sided deafness

Current Opinion in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 353-358

  Tokita, Joshua ^a   Dunn, Camille ^a   Hansen, Marlan R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone anchored hearing aid; Cochlear implant; Contralateral routing of sound; Osseointegrated implant; Single sided deafness; Sound localization; Speech discrimination; Unilateral hearing loss

Indexed keywords

COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE SIDED DEAFNESS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TINNITUS; TREATMENT PLANNING; BONE REGENERATION; HEARING LOSS, UNILATERAL; PSYCHOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; HEARING LOSS, UNILATERAL; HUMANS; OSSEOINTEGRATION; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TINNITUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84925872046     PISSN: 10689508     EISSN: 15316998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOO.0000000000000080     Document Type: Review

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