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First Croatian auditory brainstem implantation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2006

B. Pegan ,
W.-P. Sollmann ,
M. Ries ,
R. Trotic ,
B. Kekic  and
B. Sindija
B. Pegan
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital ‘Sestre milosrdnice’, Zagreb, Croatia
W.-P. Sollmann
Affiliation:
Neurochirurgische Klinik, Stadtisches Klinikum, Braunschweig, Germany
M. Ries
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital ‘Sestre milosrdnice’, Zagreb, Croatia
R. Trotic
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital ‘Sestre milosrdnice’, Zagreb, Croatia
B. Kekic
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital ‘Sestre milosrdnice’, Zagreb, Croatia
B. Sindija
Affiliation:
Polyclinic Suvag, Zagreb, Croatia
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Abstract

A deaf female patient was diagnosed with bilateral acoustic neurinomas. Diagnosis incorporated the standard audiological battery for sensorineural hearing loss, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. The left side had been operated on four years previously in another clinic using the suboccipital approach. The auditory brainstem implant surgery was performed on the ‘second side’ using the same approach. It was an uneventful operation with good anatomy and no serious post-operative complications. Post-operatively, the patient performed exceptionally well, with up to 50 per cent of words recognized in the opened set and 85 per cent in the closed set, both without lip-reading.

Keywords

Brain StemProsthesis ImplantationNeuromaAcousticNeurofibromatosis 2Hearing LossSensorineuralCroatia
Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 114 , Issue S27 , December 2000 , pp. 41 - 43
Copyright
Royal Society of Medicine Press Limited 2000

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