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JOHN F. KVETON, MD
Burlington, Mass

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1988;114(9):951.

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The effectiveness of a percutaneous bone-anchored hearing aid was reported by Maxwell Abramson, MD, and colleagues from Columbia University (New York) at the Eastern Section meeting of the Triological Society in New York. Over a two-year period, nine patients received an implant of a percutaneous bone-anchored hearing aid that was developed at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden). This device is similar in principle to the bone-anchored device described by Hough, with the exception that the stimulation is percutaneous rather than transcutaneous. The authors suggest that the percutaneous device should be more powerful due to the more effective transfer of energy to the device. Patients with a conductive hearing loss of 40 dB or better, and with speech discrimination scores of at least 60%, are considered as candidates for this procedure. All patients had used the bone conduction hearing aid prior to implantation, had congenital aural atresia, had demonstrated problems with . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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