Microsurgical reconstruction of the through-and-through defect in head and neck cancer: Is it worth it?

Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 401-408

  Thoma, Achilleas ^a,b   Veltri, Karen ^a   Archibald, Stuart ^a   Jackson, Stanley ^a   Young, J E M ^a  

^a ST JOSEPH S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b Division of Plastic Surgery   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FACE SURGERY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MALE; MANDIBLE RECONSTRUCTION; MICROSURGERY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUALITY OF LIFE; SKIN DEFECT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0032856614     PISSN: 0743684X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1000118     Document Type: Article

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