Complications in head and neck surgery: A meta-analysis of postlaryngectomy pharyngocutaneous fistula

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 67-72

  Paydarfar, Joseph A ^a   Birkmeyer, Nancy J ^b  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; CELL HETEROGENEITY; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; NECK DISSECTION; OBSERVATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN FISTULA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRACHEOTOMY; WOUND CLOSURE;

CUTANEOUS FISTULA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGECTOMY; PHARYNGEAL DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 31144437375     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: 08864470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.132.1.67     Document Type: Article

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