Postoperative complications in 202 cases of microvascular head and neck reconstruction

Journal of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 6-7, 2007, Pages 311-315

  POHLENZ, Philipp ^a   BLESSMANN, Marco ^a   HEILAND, Max ^a   BLAKE, Felix ^a   SCHMELZLE, Rainer ^a   LI, Lei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b KLINIKUM OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

postoperative complications, free tissue transfer, microsurgical reconstruction, head and neck

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SITE; FEMALE; FIBULA GRAFT; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEAD AND NECK DISEASE; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; ILIAC CREST; INCIDENCE; INGUINAL FLAP; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RADIAL FOREARM FLAP; RELIABILITY; REOPERATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGEON; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 35148840505     PISSN: 10105182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcms.2007.05.001     Document Type: Article

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