Operative morbidity associated with groin dissections

Surgery Today

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 413-418

  Tonouchi, Hitoshi ^a   Ohmori, Yukinari ^a   Kobayashi, Minako ^a   Konishi, Naomi ^a   Tanaka, Kouji ^a   Mohri, Yasuhiko ^a   Mizutani, Hitoshi ^a   Kusunoki, Masato ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Complication; Groin dissection; Malignant melanoma; Morbidity; Skin neoplasm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INGUINAL FLAP; INGUINAL REGION; LEG EDEMA; MALE; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEROMA; SKIN CANCER; SKIN FLAP SURVIVAL; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EDEMA; FEMALE; GROIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEG; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PAGET'S DISEASE, EXTRAMAMMARY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 2442488770     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-003-2738-5     Document Type: Review

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