Microvascular Free Tissue Transfer for Tongue Reconstruction After Hemiglossectomy: A Functional Assessment of Radial Forearm Versus Anterolateral Thigh Flap

Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2270-2275

  de Vicente, Juan Carlos ^a   de Villalaín, Lucas ^a   Torre, Aintzane ^a   Peña, Ignacio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO CENTRAL DE ASTURIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTEROLATERAL THIGH FLAP; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SITE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLOSSECTOMY; GRAFT FAILURE; HEMIGLOSSECTOMY; HUMAN; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIAL FOREARM FLAP; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SWALLOWING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DEGLUTITION; FEMALE; FOREARM; GLOSSECTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SURGICAL FLAPS; THIGH; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TONGUE; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 53849139785     PISSN: 02782391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joms.2008.01.018     Document Type: Article

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