Flap reconstruction following gynaecological tumour resection for advanced and recurrent disease - A 12 year experience

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 346-351

  Staiano, Jonathan J ^a   Wong, Lisa ^a   Butler, John ^a   Searle, Adam E ^a   Barton, Desmond P J ^a   Harris, Paul A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flap; Gynaecological cancer; Reconstruction; SCC; Vulva

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; FEMALE; FLAP RECONSTRUCTION; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRACILIS FLAP; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LIFESPAN; MELANOMA; MUSCLE FLAP; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; OVARY TUMOR; PAGET SKIN DISEASE; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TENSOR FASCIA LATA MUSCLE; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; VAGINA TUMOR; VULVA TUMOR; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 60449118666     PISSN: 17486815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2007.12.050     Document Type: Article

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