Clobetasol's Influence on the Management and Cost of Skin Overgrowth Associated with the Bone-Anchored Hearing Aid.

Background: Management of the skin/abutment interface in patients with bone-anchored hearing aids (BAHAs) can occasionally be a challenge. Even with the most compliant patients and the most intensive home/office treatment regimens, painful triamcinolone injections and revision surgery can become necessary. Such treatments can be associated with an inordinate cost burden.

Nucleus N5 CI500 series implant recall: hard failure rate at a major Cochlear implantation center.

Objectives/hypothesis: To compare the cumulative failure percentage of the Cochlear Nucleus N5 CI500 series implant observed, both before and after the voluntary recall of unimplanted devices, to that of the Cochlear Nucleus Freedom CI24RE series implant.

Study Design: Retrospective review of 411 patients implanted with either the Nucleus Freedom or the Nucleus N5 device.

Methods: Cochlear implantation was performed in standard fashion.

Device fixation in cochlear implantation: is bone anchoring necessary?

Objectives/hypothesis: To compare complication rates between patients whose cochlear implants were secured by a bony tie-down technique versus those secured by a periosteal tie-down technique.

Study Design: A retrospective review of 302 consecutive patients undergoing cochlear implantation (327 implants), including both adults and children, at a single institution by a single surgeon.

Methods: Cochlear implantation was performed in the standard fashion with bony securement of the device in the first subset of patients.