Arterial coupling for microvascular free tissue transfer

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 138, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 614-618

  Chernichenko, Natalya ^a   Ross, Douglas A ^a   Shin, Joseph ^a   Chow, Jen Y ^a   Sasaki, Clarence T ^a   Ariyan, Stephen ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL INSUFFICIENCY; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FEMALE; FIBULA; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT FAILURE; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; ILIAC CREST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; RADIAL FOREARM FLAP; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 42249094028     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2007.12.029     Document Type: Article

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