Microsurgical free flap reconstruction outcomes in head and neck cancer patients after surgical extirpation and intraoperative brachytherapy

Laryngoscope

Volumn 114, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1170-1176

  Ross, Douglas A ^a   Hundal, Jagdeep S ^a   Son, Yung H ^a   Ariyan, Stephan ^a   Shin, Joseph ^b   Lowlicht, Roger ^a   Sasaki, Clarence T ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Yale School of Medicine ^*

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Head and neck cancer; Iodine 125; Microvascular reconstruction

Indexed keywords

IODINE 125; PALLADIUM 103; POLYGLACTIN; POLYGLACTIN I 125; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE NECROSIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL RADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; NECROSIS; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RECURRENT CANCER; SALVAGE THERAPY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3242679935     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200407000-00007     Document Type: Article

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