2.2 Participants
One hundred and thirty-seven children with various IEMs [Common
Cavity, Enlarged Vestibular Aqueduct (EVA), Incomplete Partition of the
CochleaI-II-III(IP-I, IP-II, IP-III), Cochlear Hypoplasia, Dilatation of
Vestibule] were comprised the patient group. The normal cochlea group
consisted of 137 children. Two hundred and seventy-four children with CI
with or without IEMs were included in the study. Also, all children use
unilateral cochlear implants.
All participants matched chronological age, age of implantation, and
duration of CI use (±8 months). All of them use their CI regularly in
daily life. The inner ear abnormalities’ demographic distribution was
summarized in Table 1. The preoperative data presented in this study
were collected betweenJuly 2013 and March 2019.