title: [Our surgical experience of 20 extracochlear implantations on the oval window with transcutaneous approach].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Service de Chirurgie Cervico-Faciale, d'ORL, Hôpital Avicenne, Bobigny.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tison
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Frachet
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Van den Abbeele
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Moine
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vormes
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Despreaux
mesh_terms: D003638:Deafness / Q000601:surgery*; D006310:Hearing Aids; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D010046:Oval Window, Ear; D015398:Signal Transduction; D014433:Tympanoplasty