Short-Term Functional Donor Site Morbidity after Radial Forearm Fasciocutaneous Free Flap Harvest

Laryngoscope

Volumn 113, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2091-2094

  Skoner, Judith M ^a   Bascom, Daphne A ^b   Cohen, James I ^a   Andersen, Peter E ^a   Wax, Mark K ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Donor site morbidity; Free flap; Postoperative complications; Radial forearm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FASCIOCUTANEOUS FLAP; FEMALE; FOREARM; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HAND MOVEMENT; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MORBIDITY; NERVE FUNCTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL FOREARM FLAP; RADIAL NERVE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ULNAR NERVE; WRIST;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; ARM; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRONATION; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SUPINATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TISSUE DONORS; WRIST;

EID: 0347951348     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200312000-00006     Document Type: Article

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