Swallowing outcomes after microvascular head and neck reconstruction: A prospective review of 191 cases

Laryngoscope

Volumn 117, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1359-1363

  Khariwala, Samir S ^a   Vivek, Prashant P ^a   Lorenz, Robert R ^a   Esclamado, Ramon M ^b   Wood, Benjamin ^a   Strome, Marshall ^a   Alam, Daniel S ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Free flap; Microvascular reconstruction; Swallowing outcomes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DIETARY INTAKE; FEEDING; GLOSSECTOMY; HEAD AND NECK DISEASE; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MANDIBLE RECONSTRUCTION; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; MOUTH; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; STOMACH TUBE; SWALLOWING; UNITED STATES;

DEGLUTITION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MICROCIRCULATION; NECK; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548411747     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e3180621109     Document Type: Article

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