ArticleEuropean archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery2021
Round window accessibility during cochlear implantation.
Article in European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.
- Imaging-identified round window niche veil and intratympanic therapy efficacy in sudden sensorineural hearing loss.Annals of medicine · 2026Article
- The prediction of round window visibility at posterior-tympanotomy for cochlear implantation with "black bone" magnetic resonance imaging : Author lists.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2026Article
- Correlation between the stereostructure of facial recess and the classification of round window membrane visibility.European journal of medical research · 2025Article
- Evaluating round window niche visibility in cochlear implantation: anatomical insights and electrode insertion strategies.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2025Article
- Prediction of Difficult Round Window Visibility during Cochlear Implantation via a Reformatted CT Facial Recess View: A Retrospective Study with Surgical Correlation.AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology · 2025Article
- Comparison of the Accuracy of CBCT and MDCT Imaging Modalities in Determining the Distance between the Incus and the Facial Nerve and the Round Window and the Oval Window: A Cadaveric Cross-sectional Study :.Galen medical journal · 2025Article
- Round Window Membrane Visibility and its Implications in Cochlear Implant Surgery.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2025Article
- Auditory outcomes after scala vestibuli array insertion are similar to those after scala tympani insertion 1 year after cochlear implantation.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2024Article
- A novel radiological method to evaluate the posterior tympanotomy depth for cochlear implantation: our experience in 257 patients.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2022Observational
- Tomographic comparison of the cochlea, oval window, round window and facial nerve between adults and children and their influence on cochlear implant surgery.Brazilian journal of otorhinolaryngologyArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectiveTo assess data regarding round window (RW) visibility and surgical approaches in cochlear implant cases, and to describe and analyze surgical steps relevant for the RW approach in cochlear implantation. STUDY
designProspective clinical study.
methodsA questionnaire was completed by surgeons after each of altogether 110 cochlear implantations. Round window membrane (RWM) visibility was graded according to the St Thomas Hospital (STH) classification.
resultsPerforming different surgical steps during the preparation of the RW niche, the RWM could be fully exposed (STH Type I) in 87%. A RW approach could be used for electrode insertion in 89% of the adult and 78% of the pediatric cases. The distribution of RW types differed significantly between adults and children. Drilling of the superior bony lip was the surgical step most frequently needed in adult as well as pediatric cases to obtain optimal RW exposure.
conclusionIn children, optimized surgical exposure of the RW niche resulted in only 52% full RWM visibility; whereas in adults, this could be achieved in 87%. The facial nerve (FN) had to be exposed at the level of the posterior tympanotomy in more than 70% of pediatric cases with full RWM visibility; while in adult cases with 100% visibility, such specific exposure was necessary in only 33%. Thus, surgical preparation of the RW niche seems to be more demanding in children than in adults.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.