Soft-palate reconstruction with a “scarf” superior-constrictor advancement-rotation flap

Laryngoscope

Volumn 108, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1136-1140

  Zeitels, Steven M ^a,b,c   Kim, Jennifer ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

oropharynx; Palate cancer; palate reconstruction; tonsil cancer; velopharynx reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; JAW TUMOR; MUSCLE FLAP; PALATOPHARYNGEAL INCOMPETENCE; PALATOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT PALATE;

HUMANS; PALATAL NEOPLASMS; PALATE, SOFT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TONSILLAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031877168     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199808000-00006     Document Type: Article

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