American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery
Volume 24, Issue 1 , Pages 19-23 , January 2003

Superiority of bilateral cochlear implantation over unilateral cochlear implantation in tone discrimination in chinese patients

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    Mean percentage of correct Cantonese lexical tones discrimination scores obtained from 4 bilateral cochlear implants and 8 unilateral cochlear implants at various SNRs and in quiet. *A score of 66.77%

    Mean percentage of correct Cantonese lexical tones discrimination scores obtained from 4 bilateral cochlear implants and 8 unilateral cochlear implants at various SNRs and in quiet. *A score of 66.77% or above was regarded as being truly correct (binomial test, Z = 1.643. P < .05.)

 Address correspondence to: William Ignace Wei, FRCS, FRCSE, FACS, FHKAM, Department of Surgery, Division of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Hong Kong Medical Centre, Queen Mary Hospital, 102 Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong. E-mail: hrmswwi@hkucc.hku.hk.

PII: S0196-0709(02)32410-4

doi: 10.1053/ajot.2003.8

American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery
Volume 24, Issue 1 , Pages 19-23 , January 2003