Avoiding secondary skin graft donor site morbidity in the fibula free flap harvest

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1324-1327

  Kim, Paul D ^a   Fleck, Terry ^a   Heffelfinger, Ryan ^b   Blackwell, Keith E ^c  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSQUAMOUS CARCINOMA; ADHESION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BONE NECROSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEBRIDEMENT; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DELIRIUM TREMENS; DERMATOME; DONOR SITE; EPITHELIZATION; FEMALE; FIBULA GRAFT; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LYSIS; MALE; MANDIBLE RECONSTRUCTION; MORBIDITY; MOUTH CAVITY; MOUTH DISEASE; OROPHARYNX; OSTEOCUTANEOUS FLAP; OSTEOSARCOMA; SKIN FISTULA; SKIN NECROSIS; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FIBULA; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MANDIBLE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; ORAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149229440     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: 08864470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.134.12.1324     Document Type: Article

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