Sensory recovery in noninnervated radial forearm free flaps in oral and oropharyngeal reconstruction

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1206-1208

  Lvoff, Gregory ^a   O'Brien, Christopher J ^a   Cope, Charles ^a   Lee, Kenneth K ^a  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; MALE; MOUTH CAVITY; OROPHARYNX; REINNERVATION; SENSATION;

EID: 0031753496     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.124.11.1206     Document Type: Article

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