Dextran-related complications in head and neck microsurgery: Do the benefits outweigh the risks? A prospective randomized analysis

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1534-1539

  Disa, Joseph J ^a,b   Polvora, Virginia P ^a,b   Pusic, Andrea L ^a,b   Singh, Bhuvinesh ^a,b   Cordeiro, Peter G ^a,b  

^a Mem Sloan Kettering Cancer Center ^*

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; DEXTRAN; HEPARIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ANAPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CELLULITIS; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SITE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FISTULA; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MORBIDITY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN THROMBOSIS; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; ASPIRIN; CHILD; DEXTRANS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0642374086     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000083378.58757.54     Document Type: Article

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