Vaid, Neelam https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6316-0739
Vaid, Sanjay https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0937-4001
Avhad, Shubhangi https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3320-0714
Chandorkar, Aparna https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1580-586X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Cochlear Medical Device Company, Mumbai, INDIA (Cochlear Medical Device Company, Mumbai, INDIA)
Article History
Received: 3 March 2026
Accepted: 18 April 2026
First Online: 8 May 2026
Declarations
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: The authors declare no financial or non-financial competing interests related to any aspects of this research work.
: The authors assert that all procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional guidelines on human experimentation [Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines (India)] and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. The study was approved by KEM Hospital Research Centre Ethics committee under the reference number: MHRC/RVM/EC/1064.
: Following review, the institutional ethics committee waived informed patient consent for this retrospective study as anonymised patient data was collected from standard-of care procedure: HRCT Temporal bone.