The transverse cervical vessels as recipient vessels for previously treated head and neck cancer patients

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1253-1258

  Yu, Peirong ^a,b  

^a Univ TX M D Anderson Cancer Ctr ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CAROTID ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SCAR FORMATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; VEIN DIAMETER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CUTANEOUS FISTULA; FIBROSIS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; NECK DISSECTION; OROANTRAL FISTULA; PHARYNGEAL DISEASES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 16844376141     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000156775.01604.95     Document Type: Article

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