[Surgical implantation of the fully implantable middle-ear hearing device].
The new fully implantable middle ear device (CARINA) is useful in sensorineural, conductive and mixed hearing loss. Surgical implantation of this device in the different types of hearing loss is similar in some aspects but differs in others. Consequently, we describe the surgical procedure in sensorineural and in conductive hearing loss separately.
Algaba Guimerá
Jesús
J
Servicio de Otorrinolaringología, Hospital Donostia, Donostia-San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, España. jesus@algaba.org
Martínez Basterra
Zuriñe
Z
Lobato Pérez
Rocío
R
D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D009998:Ossicular Prosthesis; D019933:Ossicular Replacement / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D011474:Prosthesis Design