The use of radial vessel stump in free radial forearm flap as flap monitor in head and neck reconstruction

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 378-381

  Yang, Johnson Chia Shen ^a   Kuo, Yur Ren ^a   Hsieh, Ching Hua ^a   Jeng, Seng Feng ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Buried flap monitor; Free radial forearm flap; Head and neck reconstruction; Pharyngoesophageal defects; Pharyngoesophageal reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FISTULA; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; INFECTION; MALE; MORBIDITY; NECK; PHARYNX DISEASE; PHARYNX LESION; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL FOREARM FLAP; THROMBECTOMY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOREARM; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 34848841866     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e318030f7a0     Document Type: Article

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