Functional outcomes after primary oropharyngeal cancer resection and reconstruction with the radial forearm free flap

Laryngoscope

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 897-904

  Seikaly, Hadi ^a,b,c   Rieger, Jana ^a   Wolfaardt, John ^a   Moysa, Gerald ^a   Harris, Jeffery ^a,b   Jha, Naresh ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c Garneau Professional Center   (Canada)

Author keywords

Functional outcomes; Oropharyngeal reconstruction; Radial forearm free flap; Resonance; Speech; Swallowing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GLOSSECTOMY; HUMAN; MALE; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PALATOPLASTY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL FOREARM FREE FLAP; SOFT PALATE; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWALLOWING; TONGUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PALATE, SOFT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIUS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISORDERS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0038642080     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200305000-00023     Document Type: Article

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