Functional soft palate reconstruction: A comprehensive surgical approach

Head and Neck

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1615-1623

  Seikaly, Hadi ^a,b   Rieger, Jana ^a,b   Zalmanowitz, Jana ^b   Tang, Judith Lam ^b   Alkahtani, Khalid ^a   Ansari, Khalid ^a   O'Connell, Daniel ^a   Moysa, Gerald ^a   Harris, Jeffrey ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Craniofacial Osseointegration and Maxillofacial Prosthetic Rehabilitation Unit (COMPRU)   (Canada)

Author keywords

Microvascular reconstruction; Radial forearm free flap; Soft palate; Speech; Swallowing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOPHARYNX; OPERATING ROOM PERSONNEL; PALATE MALFORMATION; PALATOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT PALATE; SPEECH; SWALLOWING;

DEGLUTITION; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PALATE, SOFT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEO RECORDING; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 57349182618     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20919     Document Type: Article

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