Successful rehabilitation with cochlear implant in post-irradiation induced hearing loss in nasopharyngeal carcinoma patient.
- Author:
Dennis Y K CHUA
1
;
Henry K K TAN
Author Information
- Publication Type:Case Reports
- MeSH: Audiometry, Evoked Response; Cochlear Implants; Female; Hearing Loss; etiology; rehabilitation; Hearing Loss, Sensorineural; etiology; rehabilitation; Humans; Middle Aged; Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms; radiotherapy
- From:Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore 2007;36(1):74-77
- CountrySingapore
- Language:English
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Abstract:
INTRODUCTIONWe report a case of successful rehabilitation of hearing with a cochlear implant in a patient with nasopharyngeal carcinoma who developed post-irradiation hearing loss following treatment.
CLINICAL PICTUREA 55-year-old Chinese lady suffered from radiation-induced sensorineural hearing loss due to treatment for nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Audiological tests and imaging studies showed an intact retrocochlear pathway.
TREATMENTCochlear implantation.
OUTCOMECochlear implant was done with successful rehabilitation of hearing until the time of this report.
CONCLUSIONSIf functionally active auditory fibres survive with no recurrent tumour, successful rehabilitation of post-irradiation induced sensorineural hearing loss is possible with a cochlear implant in a patient with nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
