[Our surgical experience of 20 extracochlear implantations on the oval window with transcutaneous approach].
While multichannel implants can produce far better results than single-channel implants, the results of a multichannel implantation are impossible to predict accurately preoperatively. Single-channel implants, which produce average and constant results, still have a major merit in that their cost is much lower. Since extracochlear implantation with transcutaneous approach is innocuous, we have been promoting this type of implantation as a temporary procedure until much more effective systems are found in the future, or as a definitive implantation.
Tison
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P
Service de Chirurgie Cervico-Faciale, d'ORL, Hôpital Avicenne, Bobigny.
Frachet
B
B
Van den Abbeele
T
T
Moine
A
A
Vormes
E
E
Despreaux
G
G
D003638:Deafness / Q000601:surgery*; D006310:Hearing Aids; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D010046:Oval Window, Ear; D015398:Signal Transduction; D014433:Tympanoplasty