Incidence and predisposing factors of pharyngocutaneous fistula formation after total laryngectomy. Is there a relationship with tumor recurrence?

European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology

Volumn 261, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 61-67

  Markou, Konstantinos D ^a   Vlachtsis, Konstantinos C ^a   Nikolaou, Angelos C ^a   Petridis, Dimitrios G ^a   Kouloulas, Athanasios I ^a   Daniilidis, Ioannis C ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Incidence; Pharyngocutaneous fistula; Predisposing factors; Total laryngectomy; Tumor recurrence

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; RANITIDINE;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; FISTULA; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK DISSECTION; PHARYNGOCUTANEOUS FISTULA; PHARYNX DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRACHEOSTOMY; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VOICE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CUTANEOUS FISTULA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PHARYNGEAL DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 1442325431     PISSN: 09374477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00405-003-0643-6     Document Type: Article

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