Feasibility of flap reconstruction in conjunction with intraoperative radiation therapy for advanced and recurrent head and neck cancer

Laryngoscope

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 69-74

  Most, Michael D ^a,b   Allori, Alexander C ^a   Hu, Kenneth ^a   Urken, Mark L ^a   Persky, Mark S ^a   Sessions, Roy B ^a   Nussbaum, Moses ^a   Harrison, Louis B ^a   Frank, Douglas K ^a   Smith, Mark L ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Flap reconstruction; Head and neck cancer; Intraoperative radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MORTALITY; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOLOGY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 37549037466     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e3181559ff7     Document Type: Article

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