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Development of a Robotic Minimally Invasive Pathway for Cochlear Implantation
NCT04048239 · Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Amiens · Updated 19 Sept 2025
- What is being tested
- cochlear implantation; computerized tomography (CT) scan; electromyograph
- For
- Cochlear Hearing Loss; Implant
- Kind of study
- Tests a treatment or device on volunteers. No drug phase (a device or procedure study).
- Who can join
- Ages 18 years and older. About 9 people. The full rules are on the registry page.
- Where
- France
- When
- Starts or started 1 Oct 2019, ends 12 Sept 2023. Registered 7 Aug 2019.
- Results
- None posted yet.
In the researchers' words
Cochlear Implantation is a system developed to restore hearing in people with profound sensorineural hearing loss, whose classical hearing aids are ineffective. Surgery is necessary to insert the internal part into the cochlea and requires milling the mastoid to access the round window. This approach is technically difficult, and is performed under a microscope by an experienced surgeon. The development of a surgical technique that is both safer and less invasive is currently possible thanks to robotics.
Sites
- CHU AmiensAmiens, France