Comparative evaluation in pharyngo-oesophageal reconstruction: Radial forearm flap compared with jejunal flap. A 10-year experience

Scandinavian Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Hand Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 307-310

  Nakatsuka, Takashi ^a   Harii, Kiyonori ^a   Asato, Hirotaka ^a   Ebihara, Satoshi ^b   Yoshizumi, Takashi ^b   Saikawa, Masahisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cervical oesophagus; Free flap; Hypopharynx; Jejunal flap; Pharyngo oesophageal reconstruction; Radial forearm flap

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL INVASION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DONOR SITE; EAR NOSE THROAT SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RECONSTRUCTION; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; FEMALE; FOREARM; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; JEJUNUM; MALE; MORBIDITY; RADIUS; SKIN FISTULA; TISSUE NECROSIS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGUS; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 0031707510     PISSN: 02844311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02844319850158651     Document Type: Article

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