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Giampietro Ricci1 , Arianna Di Stadio2 \*, Valeria Gambacorta1 and Antonio Della Volpe2

1 Otolaryngology Department, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

2 Otolaryngology Department, Santobono-Posilipon Children Hospital, Cochlear Implant Unit, Naples, Italy

\*Address all correspondence to: arianna.distadio@unipg.it

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