Timing of surgical intervention with cochlear implant in patients with large vestibular aqueduct syndrome.

OBJECTIVES: (1) To report the speech perception and intelligibility results of Mandarin-speaking patients with large vestibular aqueduct syndrome (LVAS) after cochlear implantation (CI); (2) to compare their performance with a group of CI users without LVAS; (3) to understand the effects of age at i...

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Main Authors: Hui-Chen Ko, Tien-Chen Liu, Li-Ang Lee, Wei-Chieh Chao, Yung-Ting Tsou, Shu-Hang Ng, Che-Ming Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3839901?pdf=render