Free-flap reconstruction in the doubly irradiated patient population

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 125-132

  Cohn, Alvin B ^a   Lang, Patrick O ^a   Agarwal, Jayant P ^a   Peng, Stephanie L ^a   Alizadeh, Kaveh ^a   Stenson, Kerstin M ^a   Haraf, Daniel J ^a   Cohen, Ezra E W ^a   Vokes, Everett E ^a   Gottlieb, Lawrence J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; FLUOROURACIL; HEPARIN; HYDROXYUREA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE NECROSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; FEMALE; FISTULA; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT NECROSIS; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INFECTION; IRRADIATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TISSUE NECROSIS; TRACHEA DISEASE; TREATMENT INDICATION; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND DEHISCENCE; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; SECOND CANCER; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 48049107772     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181773d39     Document Type: Article

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