Functional outcomes and donor site morbidity following circumferential pharyngoesophageal reconstruction using an anterolateral thigh flap and salivary bypass tube

Head and Neck

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 147-154

  Murray, Dylan J ^a   Gilbert, Ralph W ^a   Vesely, Martin J J ^a   Novak, Christine B ^a   Zaitlin Gencher, Sheryl ^a   Clark, Jonathan R ^a   Gullane, Patrick J ^a   Neligan, Peter C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anterolateral thigh flap; Circumferential pharyngoesophageal defects; Reconstruction; Salivary bypass tube

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; ESOPHAGUS RECONSTRUCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; PHARYNX DISEASE; PHARYNX RECONSTRUCTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVARY GLAND; SPEECH; STOMACH TUBE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THIGH; TISSUE FLAP; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOICE;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CARCINOSARCOMA; ESOPHAGECTOMY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PHARYNGECTOMY; PHARYNX; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALIVA; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846527183     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20489     Document Type: Article

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