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

Abstract

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.

• Authors: S Basavaraj, M Shanks, N Sivaji, Agnes A Allen
• Journal: European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol) Vol. 262 Issue 10 Pg. 852-5 (Oct 2005) ISSN: 0937-4477 [Print] Germany
• PMID: 15756568 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)

Topics

• Adult
• Aged
• Cholesteatoma (complications, surgery)
• Chronic Disease
• Cochlear Implantation (methods)
• Female
• Hearing Loss (etiology, surgery)
• Humans
• Male
• Mastoid (surgery)
• Mastoiditis (etiology, surgery)
• Otitis Media, Suppurative (complications)
• Tomography, X-Ray Computed
• Treatment Outcome