Success of multiple, sequential, free tissue transfers to the head and neck

Laryngoscope

Volumn 115, Issue 1 I, 2005, Pages 101-104

  Varvares, Mark A ^a,b   Lin, Derrick ^a   Hadlock, Tessa ^a   Azzizadeh, Babak ^a   Gliklich, Richard ^a   Rounds, Mark ^a   Rocco, James ^a   Deschler, Daniel G ^a   Fabian, Richard ^a   Cheney, Mack L ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b S LOUIS UNIV HLTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Free flaps; Head and neck cancer; Head and neck reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BONE NECROSIS; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ESOPHAGUS STENOSIS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MANDIBLE RECONSTRUCTION; PHARYNX DISEASE; PLASTIC SURGERY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 19944427965     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000150697.54000.eb     Document Type: Review

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