Functional outcome after total and subtotal glossectomy with free flap reconstruction

Head and Neck

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 909-918

  Yanai, Chie ^a,b   Kikutani, Takesi ^a   Adachi, Masatosi ^a   Thoren, Hanna ^b   Suzuki, Munekazu ^a   Iizuka, Tateyuki ^b  

^a NIPPON DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Free flap; Function; Glossectomy; Oral cancer; Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GLOSSECTOMY; HUMAN; MALE; MANDIBLE RESECTION; OROPHARYNX; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH THERAPY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; SWALLOWING; TONGUE CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DEGLUTITION; FEMALE; GLOSSECTOMY; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 47549102987     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20804     Document Type: Article

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