Data Availability Statement:The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to privacy or ethical restrictions.
Conflicts of Interest: The authors disclose no conflicts of interest.
Funding Statement: This work was supported by the grants of the National Key Research and Development Project (2020YFC2005200 & 2020YFC2005201); National Natural Science Foundation of China (General Project 82171130); Analysis and Application of Medical Big Data in PLA General Hospital (2019MBD-005).
Acknowledgments: The authors thank the patients for their cooperation and participation during this work.
Authors’ Contributions:WHY designed the work; WDY provided data resources; LJ, CGH and ZXL acquired and analyzed data; SMT and WHY drafted, revised and approved the manuscript; WQJ agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work. All authors have reviewed, discussed and approved the manuscript.
Supplementary Materials
Figure S1: Postoperative hearing results of the 4 patients who were treated with surgical operation. Case 3, 5, 6 were taken with translabyrinthine approach and case 7 with retrosigmoid approach. A red triangle with an arrow was used for the right ear and a blue square with an arrow was used for the left ear to indicate that there was no response at maximum air conduction with masking.
Table S1: Criteria for different configurations of audiograms.
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