*Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
†Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
‡Division of Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences, Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
§Department of Otolaryngology, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
||Section of Otolaryngology, Santa Fe of Bogota Foundation, Bogota
¶Division of Otology and Neurotology, University of Health Sciences Foundation, FUCS, Bogota, Colombia
#Division of Otolaryngology, Department of Surgery, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad
**Cochlear Implant Department, Venezuelan Foundation of Otology, Caracas, Venezuela
††Department of Otolaryngology, National University of Asuncion, Asuncion
‡‡Catholic University of Asuncion, Asuncion, Paraguay
§§CEDAF, Hearing Center, Guatemala City, Guatemala
||||Chicago Hearing Care, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
¶¶Otolaryngology Center, Quito, Ecuador
***Section of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Surgery, Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.A
Correspondence to Susan D. Emmett, M.D., M.P.H., Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 601 N Caroline St, 6th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21287; E-mail: [email protected]
J.A.C.-K. is a surgical and clinical consultant for Zhejiang Nurotron Biotechnology Co., Ltd. H.W.F. serves on the surgical advisory boards of MED-EL, Cochlear Corporation, and Advanced Bionics. Remaining authors have no conflicts to disclose.
This work was presented at the American Otological Society 149th Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL on May 20, 2016.
