Internal mammary artery and vein: Recipient vessels for free tissue transfer to the head and neck in the vessel-depleted neck

Head and Neck

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 797-801

  Urken, Mark L ^a   Higgins, Kevin M ^b   Lee, Bryant ^c   Vickery, Carlin ^c  

^a Institute for Head and Neck and Thyroid Cancer   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Free tissue transfer; Internal mammary; Vessel depleted neck

Indexed keywords

ARTERY GRAFT; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; DONOR SITE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; REVASCULARIZATION; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VEIN GRAFT;

CERVICOPLASTY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; NECK; SURGICAL FLAPS; VEINS;

EID: 33748260421     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20409     Document Type: Review

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