Minimizing complications in neck dissection

Journal of Laryngology and Otology

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 101-113

  Talmi, Yoav P ^a  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Head and neck neoplasms; Neoplasm metastasis; Neoplasms, squamous cell; Surgery, operative

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFAZOLIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DALTEPARIN; ENOXAPARIN; GENTAMICIN; HEPARIN; POVIDONE IODINE;

AGED; AIR EMBOLISM; ANESTHESIA; ARTERY RUPTURE; CAROTID ARTERY; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHYROIDISM; KINESIOTHERAPY; MUSCLE FLAP; NECK DISSECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; REVIEW; SMOKING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VASOPRESSIN RELEASE; WOUND CARE;

EID: 0032978050     PISSN: 00222151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0022215100143336     Document Type: Review

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