Lower lip reconstruction with the tongue flap: Surgical technique and long-term results

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Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 73-78

  Minovi, A ^a   Ural, Ahmet ^a,c   Kollert, M ^a   Draf, W ^b   Bockmuehl, U ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Long term results; Lower lip; Reconstruction; Tongue flap

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIP MALFORMATION; LIP RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE FLAP; FOLLOW UP; LIP; LIP TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PLASTIC SURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TIME; TONGUE; TRANSPLANTATION;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIP; LIP NEOPLASMS; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS; TONGUE;

EID: 34548591439     PISSN: 1781782X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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