Free tissue reconstruction of the hypopharynx after organ preservation therapy: Analysis of wound complications

Laryngoscope

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1192-1196

  Teknos, Theodoros N ^a,b   Myers, Larry L ^a   Bradford, Carol R ^a   Chepeha, Douglas B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Free tissue transfer; Head and neck cancer; Organ preservation; Radiation therapy; Salvage therapy; Squamous cell carcinoma; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHARYNX; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIA; LARYNX CARCINOMA; MALE; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALVAGE THERAPY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; WOUND; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

EID: 0034937116     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200107000-00011     Document Type: Article

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