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ArticleAudiology research2025

Use of the FLEX 28 Dexamethasone-Eluting Cochlear Implant Electrode in Electric-Acoustic Stimulation: A Case Report.

Shin-Ichi Usami, Yutaka Takumi, Hidekane Yoshimura, Shin-Ya Nishio

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Article in Audiology research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Shin-Ichi UsamiDepartment of Hearing Implant Sciences, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto 390-8621, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-5068-6122
Yutaka TakumiDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto 390-8621, Japan.
Hidekane YoshimuraDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto 390-8621, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-9601-7496
Shin-Ya NishioDepartment of Hearing Implant Sciences, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto 390-8621, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-6640-2297

Funding

Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development JP24ek0109741Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare 23FC10149
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

cochlear implantdexamethasone-eluting electrodeelectric–acoustic stimulationhearing preservationimpedance field telemetrymitochondrial m.1555A > G variantstructure preservation

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PMID40981391
PMCPMC12452402

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