Fistula analysis after radial forearm free flap reconstruction of hypopharyngeal defects

Laryngoscope

Volumn 118, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1157-1163

  Andrades, Patricio ^a,b   Pehler, Stephen F ^a,b   Baranano, Christopher F ^a,b   Magnuson, Jeffery S ^a,b   Carroll, William R ^a,b   Rosenthal, Eben L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b 563 Boshell Building ^*

Author keywords

Hypopharyngeal reconstruction; Pharyngocutaneous fistula; Radial forearm free flap

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFORMITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIET; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNGEAL DEFECT; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATHOLOGY; PHARYNGOCUTANEOUS FISTULA; PHARYNX DISEASE; PHARYNX RECONSTRUCTION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIAL FOREARM FLAP; RECIPIENT; RECURRENCE RISK; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN FISTULA; SOCIALIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; FISTULA; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HYPOPHARYNX TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RISK FACTOR; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CUTANEOUS FISTULA; FEMALE; FISTULA; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PHARYNGEAL DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 47149106826     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e31816f695a     Document Type: Article

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