The surgical rehabilitation of total deafness with the multichannel cochlear implant. Indications and results.
In case of total deafness the multichannel cochlear implant supplies a substantial improvement. It allows recognition of known words without lip reading, with a high percentage of good responses. Clinical and phoniatric results are reported in 21 cases of implanted patients.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001933:Brain Stem / Q000502:physiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003054:Cochlear Implants / Q000009:adverse effects; D003056:Cochlear Nerve / Q000502:physiology; D003638:Deafness / Q000534:rehabilitation* / Q000601:surgery; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D006801:Humans; D008085:Lipreading; D008875:Middle Aged; D013067:Speech Perception