A new flap design for tongue reconstruction after total or subtotal glossectomy in thin patients

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 795-799

  Sakuraba, Minoru ^a   Asano, Takayuki ^a   Miyamoto, Shimpei ^a   Hayashi, Ryuichi ^a   Yamazaki, Mitsuo ^a   Miyazaki, Masakazu ^a   Ugumori, Toru ^a   Daiko, Hiroyuki ^a   Kimata, Yoshihiro ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Laryngeal preservation; Rectus abdominis musculocutaneous flap; Tongue reconstruction; Total glossectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVERSATION; DIET; EPITHELIZATION; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; GLOSSECTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; LARYNGECTOMY; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM DISEASE; LYMPHORRHEA; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; MOUTH DISEASE; MUCOSAL DISEASE; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; NECROSIS; ORAL SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SKIN FISTULA; SKIN ISLAND FLAP; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STOMA; SURGICAL INFECTION; SWALLOWING; TONGUE CANCER; TONGUE RECONSTRUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; GLOSSECTOMY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL FLAPS; THINNESS; TONGUE; TONGUE NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 60749130446     PISSN: 17486815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2007.09.056     Document Type: Article

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