Auditory brainstem implant
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An auditory brainstem implant (ABI) is a surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf, due to retrocochlear hearing impairment (due to illness or injury damaging the cochlea or auditory nerve, and so precluding the use of a cochlear implant). In Europe, ABIs have been used in children and adults, and in patients with neurofibromatosis type II.[1]
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- Davis NL, Rappaport JM, MacDougall JC (Fall–Winter 1997). "Cochlear and Auditory Brainstem Implants in the Management of Acoustic Neuroma and Bilateral Acoustic Neurofibromatosis" (PDF). McGill Journal of Medicine (3): 115–120. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-06.
- Møller AR (2006). "History of Cochlear Implants and Auditory Brainstem Implants" (PDF). Adv Otorhinolaryngol. Advances in Oto-Rhino-Laryngology. 64: 1–10. doi:10.1159/000094455. ISBN 978-3-8055-8157-8. PMID 16891833.
- Schwartz, MS.; Otto, SR.; Shannon, RV.; Hitselberger, WE.; Brackmann, DE. (Jan 2008). "Auditory brainstem implants". Neurotherapeutics. 5 (1): 128–36. doi:10.1016/j.nurt.2007.10.068. PMC 5084135. PMID 18164492.