Functional outcomes after surgical reconstruction of the base of tongue using the radial forearm free flap in patients with oropharyngeal carcinoma

Head and Neck

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1024-1032

  Rieger, Jana M ^a,b   Zalmanowitz, Jana G ^a   Li, Shirley Y Y ^a   Sytsanko, Anna ^a   Harris, Jeffrey ^b   Williams, David ^b   Seikaly, Hadi ^a,b  

^a Misericordia Community Hospital   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Microvascular reconstruction; Oropharynx; Radial forearm free flap; Speech; Swallowing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTITION; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEEDING; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; MALE; ORAL SURGERY; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIAL FOREARM FLAP; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SWALLOWING; TONGUE BASE RECONSTRUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBE FEEDING; CARCINOMA; CONVALESCENCE; FOLLOW UP; GLOSSECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; OROPHARYNX TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA; DEGLUTITION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOSSECTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36348984711     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20623     Document Type: Article

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