Improving the design of the pedicled nasoseptal flap for skull base reconstruction: A radioanatomic study

Laryngoscope

Volumn 117, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1560-1569

  Pinheiro Neto, Carlos Diogenes ^a   Prevedello, Daniel M ^a   Carrau, Ricardo L ^a,b   Snyderman, Carl H ^a   Mintz, Arlan ^a   Gardner, Paul ^a   Kassam, Amin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Endoscope; Expanded endonasal approaches; Nasoseptal flap; Reconstruction; Skull base surgery; Vascularized flap

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; NASOSEPTAL FLAP; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL BASE; SKULL SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL SEPTUM; PILOT PROJECTS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34548445477     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e31806db514     Document Type: Article

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