Review of 346 patients with free-flap reconstruction following head and neck surgery for neoplasm

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 122-129

  Podrecca, S ^a,b   Salvatori, P ^a   Squadrelli Saraceno, M ^a   Fallahdar, D ^a   Calabrese, L ^a   Cantu G ^a   Molinari, R ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Free flap; Head and neck neoplasm; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CRANIOFACIAL SURGERY; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESTHETICS; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANDIBLE CANCER; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MOUTH CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PHARYNX CANCER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RATING SCALE; REOPERATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN GRAFT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHILD; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645070553     PISSN: 17486815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2005.08.002     Document Type: Article

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