A single center’s experience with 308 free flaps for repair of head and neck cancer defects

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 472-478

  Schusterman, Mark A ^a,b   Miller, Michael J ^a   Reece, Gregory P ^a   Kroll, Stephen S ^a   Marchi, Marcello ^a   Goepfert, Helmuth ^a  

^a The University of Texas ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMAN; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOSIS; VEINS;

EID: 0007967408     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199493030-00004     Document Type: Article

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