Comparison of innervated and noninnervated free flaps in oral reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1307-1313

  Kimata, Yoshihiro ^a   Uchiyama, Kiyotaka ^b   Ebihara, Satoshi ^b   Kishimoto, Seiji ^b   Asai, Masao ^b   Saikawa, Masahisa ^b   Ohyama, Waichiro ^b   Haneda, Tastumasa ^b   Hayashi, Ryuichi ^b   Onitsuka, Tetsuro ^b   Nakatsuka, Takashi ^b   Harii, Kiyonori ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FACE SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; INNERVATION; MALE; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; REINNERVATION; SENSORY SYSTEM EXAMINATION; THIGH; TONGUE CARCINOMA;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; GLOSSECTOMY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SENSATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; THIGH;

EID: 13044256406     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199910000-00010     Document Type: Article

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