TY - JOUR T1 - COchlear implants in children and adolescents AU - Lammers MW, van der Heijden GG, Grolman W Y1 - 2012/07/01 N1 - 10.1001/archpediatrics.2012.120 JO - Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine SP - 677 EP - 677 VL - 166 IS - 7 N2 - In their Editorial “Cochlear Implants in Children and Adolescents” in the January issue of the Archives,3 Hodges and Balkany share their opinion on bilateral implantation and advocate its use regardless of socioeconomic circumstances. In a recent systematic review, we, however, have shown that the second implant comes at a high cost. Moreover, the literature does not provide evidence for the cost utility of the second implant yet.4 SN - 1072-4710 M3 - doi: 10.1001/archpediatrics.2012.120 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpediatrics.2012.120 ER -