Comparison of the radial forearm flap and the thinned anterolateral thigh cutaneous flap for reconstruction of tongue defects: An evaluation of donor-site morbidity

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 114, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1704-1710

  Huang, Chih Hung ^b   Chen, Hung Chi ^a   Huang, Yau Lin ^b   Mardini, Samir ^b   Feng, Guan Ming ^b  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTEROLATERAL THIGH CUTANEOUS FLAP; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SITE; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; GLOSSECTOMY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; RADIAL FOREARM FLAP; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCAR; SKIN FLAP; SOFT TISSUE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE FLAP; TONGUE CANCER; TONGUE DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CICATRIX; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOREARM; GLOSSECTOMY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PIGMENTATION DISORDERS; PRURITUS; SARCOMA; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; THIGH; TISSUE DONORS; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 14944361831     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000142476.36975.07     Document Type: Article

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