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Comment
. 2008 Jun;138(6):812-3; author reply 813.
doi: 10.1016/j.otohns.2008.03.017.

Cochleostomy placement and vestibular injury

Charley C Della Santina
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Cochleostomy placement and vestibular injury

Charley C Della Santina. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2008 Jun.

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  • Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2009 Nov;141(5):665
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Figure 1
Panels AB – Approaches to the cochlea defined by Todt, Basta and Ernst, reproduced from [1]. (A) Location of the “anterior” cochleostomy. (B) Location of the “round window” cochleostomy. Panel C – Images from the 3D Virtual Temporal Bone data set [2,3,4] oriented to correspond to the extent possible with the view in Figure 1AB. Cochleostomy site 1, which corresponds to the “anterior” approach of Todt et al, directs the electrode into the hook region of the scala media (bright pink). Site 2, which corresponds to the “round window” approach of Todt et al, is closer to the approximate centroid of cochleostomy sites reported in a recent survey of neurotologic surgeons [4] (site 3), except that it passes through part of the round window. Inset at upper right shows the 3D Virtual Temporal Bone viewer’s corresponding skull orientation.
Figure 1
Figure 1
Panels AB – Approaches to the cochlea defined by Todt, Basta and Ernst, reproduced from [1]. (A) Location of the “anterior” cochleostomy. (B) Location of the “round window” cochleostomy. Panel C – Images from the 3D Virtual Temporal Bone data set [2,3,4] oriented to correspond to the extent possible with the view in Figure 1AB. Cochleostomy site 1, which corresponds to the “anterior” approach of Todt et al, directs the electrode into the hook region of the scala media (bright pink). Site 2, which corresponds to the “round window” approach of Todt et al, is closer to the approximate centroid of cochleostomy sites reported in a recent survey of neurotologic surgeons [4] (site 3), except that it passes through part of the round window. Inset at upper right shows the 3D Virtual Temporal Bone viewer’s corresponding skull orientation.
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