Main description:

This comprehensive, high-level surgical reference and atlas is tailored
for surgeons who are undertaking training for cochlear implant
procedures and implantable auditory devices and for experienced
surgeons who would like to expand their knowledge, improve their skills
and outcomes, and learn advanced surgical techniques.

Following the principle underlying Professor Sanna’s other successful
publications, Surgery for Cochlear
and Other Auditory Implants takes an integrated approach to
anatomy, imaging, technology, decision making, surgical procedures
described step by step, and clinical cases.

This book allows readers to:

• Improve the efficiency and outcomes of cochlear implantation and
  other auditory implant surgeries


• Learn the required basic and advanced surgical techniques


• Evaluate different surgical options and types of implants


• Review common and uncommon variations of anatomy and malformations


• Understand issues and surgical modifications unique to pediatric
  cochlear implantation, to revision surgery, and in postmeningitis,
  otosclerosis, and NF2 cases


• Find decision-making algorithms for difficult pathologies


• Examine common and not so common intraoperative dilemmas and
  identify strategies to resolve them


• Review preoperative assessment and set up and outcomes


• Find out about classification systems in cochlear implant
  failure, malformations, otosclerosis, and post meningitis

Supplementing the 1200 images within the book are 15 outstanding videos
available on Thieme’s MediaCenter demonstrating the implantation of the
different cochlear implantation devices that are currently available and
the application of brainstem implants in these situations: tumor
removal, malformation (missing auditory nerve in children), and
cochlear ossification.