Bone-anchored hearing aid: comparison of benefit by patient subgroups.

Objectives/hypothesis: The osseointegrated bone-anchored hearing aid, using the Branemark system, is well established and has proven benefit. The aim was to study quality of life benefits within patient subgroups using the validated Glasgow Benefit Inventory (GBI).

Study Design: Retrospective questionnaire study.

Postural stability of preoperative acoustic neuroma patients assessed by sway magnetometry: are they unsteady?

Objective: The objective was to evaluate the preoperative postural stability of acoustic neuroma patients using sway magnetometry.

Study Design: Prospective two-center study.

Methods: Fifty-one patients (mean age, 53 years) diagnosed with unilateral acoustic neuroma on magnetic resonance imaging at two tertiary referral centers were studied.