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Cochlear implantation and management of chronic suppurative otitis media: single stage procedure?

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In a series of 360 patients who underwent cochlear implantation at our center, four patients (five procedures) had cochlear implantation with obliteration of the mastoid cavity and management of cholesteatoma as a single-staged procedure. Three patients were bilaterally deaf secondary to CSOM and had bilateral mastoid cavities, and in one patient congenital cholesteatoma was identified during cochlear implantation. A mastoidectomy or revision mastoidectomy with obliteration of the mastoid cavity and cochlear implantation was performed as a single stage procedure. Cholesteatoma reoccurred in one patient 9 years after cochlear implantation. Surgical procedures, complications, follow-up and outcomes are discussed.

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Correspondence to S. Basavaraj.

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This article was prepared in the academic interests of the authors and was not funded by any company or organizations. This paper was presented at the British Society of Neuro-otology Conference in September 2003 at Imperial College, London.

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Basavaraj, S., Shanks, M., Sivaji, N. et al. Cochlear implantation and management of chronic suppurative otitis media: single stage procedure?. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol 262, 852–855 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00405-004-0907-9

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