Chua Dennis Y K, Tan Henry K K
Department of Otolaryngology, Changi General Hospital, Singapore.
Ann Acad Med Singap. 2007 Jan;36(1):74-7.
We report a case of successful rehabilitation of hearing with a cochlear implant in a patient with nasopharyngeal carcinoma who developed post-irradiation hearing loss following treatment.
A 55-year-old Chinese lady suffered from radiation-induced sensorineural hearing loss due to treatment for nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Audiological tests and imaging studies showed an intact retrocochlear pathway.
Cochlear implantation.
Cochlear implant was done with successful rehabilitation of hearing until the time of this report.
If functionally active auditory fibres survive with no recurrent tumour, successful rehabilitation of post-irradiation induced sensorineural hearing loss is possible with a cochlear implant in a patient with nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
