Free flap complications: When is enough, enough?

Current Opinion in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 236-239

  Rosenthal, Eben L ^a,b   Dixon, Susan F ^a  

^a Kentucky   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER PATIENT; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GLOSSECTOMY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEAD AND NECK DISEASE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MICROVASCULATURE; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND HEALING;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; NECROSIS; ORAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0038148071     PISSN: 10689508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00020840-200308000-00003     Document Type: Review

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