American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery
Volume 31, Issue 2 , Pages 110-113 , March 2010

Complications in pediatric cochlear implants

  • Jonathan McJunkin, MD
    • ,
  • Anita Jeyakumar, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Otolaryngology, Saint Louis University, 1465 South Grand Blvd, Suite B826, St Louis, MO 63104, USA.

Received 30 September 2008

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☆ Work was done at the Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO. Some data are to be presented at the Annual Oto-HNS meeting 2008, Chicago, IL. There was no financial support for this work.

PII: S0196-0709(08)00254-8

doi: 10.1016/j.amjoto.2008.11.012

American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery
Volume 31, Issue 2 , Pages 110-113 , March 2010

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