Complications of cochlear implant surgery

Autor: Kosanović Rade, Ivanković Zoran, Stojanović Sandra
Jazyk: English<br />Serbian
Rok vydání: 2004
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Zdroj: Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, Vol 132, Iss 9-10, Pp 302-305 (2004)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0370-8179
DOI: 10.2298/SARH0410302K
Popis: During the last several decades, cochlear implant has been fully recognized in treatment of severe hearing loss. Development of modern technology enabled inconceivable possibilities of technical qualities of the device as well as development of usable coding strategies, which led to extraordinary results in patient rehabilitation. Although cochlear implantation has become one of the routine operative procedures throughout the world nowadays, it gives rise to certain complications. These complications, though rare, can sometimes be very serious, even with fatal outcome. If cochlear implantation is performed by experienced and well-educated team of experts, the possibility of complications is minimal and is certainly not the argument against cochlear implantation as a method of treatment of severe hearing impairments.
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