Tel Aviv University
Mastoidectomy not needed in cochlear implant surgery
Published in Pharma Investments, Ventures and Law Weekly, August 7th, 2005
Otolaryngologists in Israel conducted a "retrospective study" to "challenge the need for mastoidectomy" in CI surgery, "by comparing the advantages and disadvantages of the classic technique for CI, the mastoidectomy posterior tympanotomy approach (MPTA), with the suprameatal approach (SMA), a nonmastoidectomy approach."
Data from "290 patients who underwent cochlear implantation in our department between 1989 and 2002" were reviewed, explained J. Kronenberg and coauthors at Tel Aviv University. "One hundred fifty-seven of...
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