Functional reconstruction of the tongue and deglutition muscles following extensive resection of tongue cancer

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 993-1000

  Yamamoto, Yuhei ^a   Sugihara, Tsuneki ^a   Furuta, Yasushi ^a   Fukuda, Satoshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GLOSSECTOMY; HUMAN; MALE; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWALLOWING; TONGUE CANCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DEGLUTITION; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOSSECTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MOUTH FLOOR; NERVE REGENERATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; TONGUE; TONGUE NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031684224     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199809040-00009     Document Type: Article

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