Temporary Explant of a Transcutaneous Bone Conduction Hearing Implant for Imaging of the Pituitary Gland

Otol Neurotol. 2018 Aug;39(7):e557-e560. doi: 10.1097/MAO.0000000000001879.

Abstract

Objective: Clinical report on feasibility and outcome of a surgical procedure.

Patient: Nine-year-old child, supplied with a transcutaneous bone conduction hearing implant, requiring magnetic resonance imaging of the head to exclude a tumor of the pituitary gland.

Intervention: Temporal removal and subsequent reimplantation of the implant in a single surgical procedure.

Main outcome measure: Postoperative audiometric results.

Conclusion: Under specific clinical circumstances, temporary removal of the transcutaneous bone conduction implant described, is technically accomplishable.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Bone Conduction
  • Child
  • Device Removal / methods*
  • Female
  • Hearing Aids*
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods*
  • Pituitary Gland / diagnostic imaging*