Microvascular reconstruction of the hypopharynx: Defect classification, treatment algorithm, and functional outcome based on 165 consecutive cases

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 652-660

  Disa, Joseph J ^a   Pusic, Andrea L ^b   Hidalgo, David A ^b   Cordeiro, Peter G ^b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIET; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FISTULA; FOLLOW UP; FOREARM; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; JEJUNUM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE SURVIVAL;

EID: 0037316719     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000041987.53831.23     Document Type: Article

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