Does microvascular free flap reconstruction in oral squamous cell carcinoma improve patient survival?

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 775-780

  Marchetti, Claudio ^a   Pizzigallo, Angelo ^a   Cipriani, Riccardo ^a   Campobassi, Angelo ^b   Badiali, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b BUFALINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT NECROSIS; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INFECTION; MALE; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; MOUTH CARCINOMA; NECK DISSECTION; RECURRENT CANCER; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; ORAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 56549085285     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2008.08.019     Document Type: Article

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