Cochlear Implantation in Nontraditional Candidates
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COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION IN IRAN
Cochlear implantation has become an increasingly common procedure in the rehabilitation of selected cases of profound deafness.' Patients should have profound total bilateral sensorineural hearing loss. Sound is transformed into small electric currents which stimulate the auditory nerves in the cochlea and generate the hearing sensation. The nucleus cochlear implant is the result of more t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Otology & Neurotology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1531-7129
DOI: 10.1097/mao.0b013e31827850b8