End-to-side venous anastomosis with an anastomotic coupling device for microvascular free-tissue transfer in head and neck reconstruction

Laryngoscope

Volumn 118, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2146-2150

  Chernichenko, Natalya ^a   Ross, Douglas A ^b   Shin, Joseph ^a   Sasaki, Clarence T ^a   Ariyan, Stephen ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ST VINCENT S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anastomotic coupling device; End to side venous anastomosis; Head and neck reconstruction; Microvascular free tissue transfer

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS DEHISCENCE; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BONE NECROSIS; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; LARYNX CARCINOMA; LIP CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; MOUTH CARCINOMA; NOSE CARCINOMA; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; OSTEOSARCOMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL FOREARM FLAP; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKULL TUMOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; TEMPORAL BONE TUMOR; TONGUE CARCINOMA; VASCULAR DISEASE; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY; CASE REPORT; EQUIPMENT; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT OCCLUSION; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; REOPERATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ARTERIES; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; VEINS;

EID: 58149361414     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e3181839b75     Document Type: Article

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