Free-flap head and neck reconstruction and quality of life: A 2-year prospective study

Laryngoscope

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 874-880

  Bozec, Alexandre ^a   Poissonnet, Gilles ^a   Chamorey, Emmanuel ^a   Casanova, Cédric ^b   Vallicioni, Jacques ^a   Demard, François ^a   Mahdyoun, Pouya ^a   Peyrade, Frédéric ^a   Follana, Philippe ^a   Bensadoun, René Jean ^a   Benezery, Karen ^a   Thariat, Juliette ^a   Marcy, Pierre Yves ^a   Sudaka, Anne ^a   Dassonville, Olivier ^a  

^a CENTRE ANTOINE LACASSAGNE   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Free flap; Head and neck cancer; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PARANASAL SINUS NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 43049085191     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e3181644abd     Document Type: Article

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