Free flap reconstruction of the scalp and calvaria of major neurosurgical resections in cancer patients: Lessons learned closing large, difficult wounds of the dura and skull

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 865-872

  Wang, Howard T ^a   Erdmann, Detlev ^a   Olbrich, Kevin C ^a   Friedman, Allan H ^a   Levin, L Scott ^a   Zenn, Michael R ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CALVARIA; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT NECROSIS; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; SKULL INJURY; SMOKING; STROKE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; SCALP; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKULL; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 33847224532     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000240830.19716.c2     Document Type: Article

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