Adequate venous drainage: The most critical factor for a successful free jejunal transfer

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 229-234

  Tsao, Chung Kan ^a   Chen, Hung Chi ^a,b   Chuang, Chwei Chin ^a   Chen, Huan Tang ^a   Mardini, Samir ^a   Coskunfirat, Koray ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b E DA HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; ESOPHAGUS RECONSTRUCTION; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; FEMALE; FREE JEJUNUM FLAP; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; JEJUNUM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHARYNGOCUTANEOUS FISTULA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN FISTULA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE NECROSIS; VEIN DRAINAGE; VENOUS CIRCULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; JEJUNUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEINS;

EID: 4644244217     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000116286.61316.28     Document Type: Article

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