Experience with microvascular free flaps in preoperatively irradiated tissue of the oral cavity and oropharynx in 303 patients

Oral Oncology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 738-746

  Klug, Clemens ^a   Berzaczy, Dominik ^a   Voracek, Martin ^b   Enislidis, Georg ^a   Rath, Thomas ^a   Millesi, Werner ^c   Ewers, Rolf ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c GENERAL HOSPITAL LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Free flap; Microsurgery; Oral cancer; Preoperative radiotherapy; Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; MITOMYCIN C;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; ISCHEMIA; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; MOUTH CARCINOMA; OPERATION DURATION; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; OROPHARYNX; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 22144458009     PISSN: 13688375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2005.03.015     Document Type: Article

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