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Otolaryngology: ENT Surgery
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Cell & Stem Cell Research
World Congress and Expo on
Journal of Otolaryngology Online Journal | Volume 8
Cochlear implant surgery by transcanal VERIA technique: Experience from 3000 cases
J M Hans
Hearing Care & Vertigo, India
T
he Veria technique for Cochlear implantation is a non-
mastoidectomy technique which is done through the end
aural route for the cochleostomy with a transcanal tunnel
drilled in the posterior canal wall. This technique has been
used for implanting in more than 3000 cases. This technique
uses a specially designed perforator to make the tunnel in
the posterior canal wall. Though the conventional technique
has been successful it is more time consuming and is prone
to various complications especially in children with small
facial recess, cochlear malformations and cochlear rotation.
This technique is simple, helps in faster healing and earlier
fitting of the processor, is precise thereby minimizing trauma
to the facial nerve. The surgery can be performed in infants
who have not yet developed the mastoid completely. This
technique can be applied in difficult cases of common cavity,
ossified cochlea, cochlear hypoplasia, otosclerosis, high jugular
bulb, rotated cochlea with great ease and minimal difficulty.
e:
jmhans1@gmail.comENT and Stem Cell 2018, Volume 8
DOI: 10.4066/2250-0359-C1-003