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.