Radical ablative surgery and radial forearm free flap (RFFF) reconstruction for patients with oral or oropharyngeal cancer: Postoperative outcomes and oncologic and functional results

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 129, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 681-687

  Bozec, Alexandre ^a   Poissonnet, Gilles ^a   Chamorey, Emmanuel ^b   Laout, Claire ^a   Vallicioni, Jacques ^a   Demard, François ^a   Peyrade, Frédéric ^c   Follana, Philippe ^c   Bensadoun, René Jean ^d   Benezery, Karen ^d   Thariat, Juliette ^d   Marcy, Pierre Yves ^e   Sudaka, Anne ^a   Dassonville, Olivier ^a  

^a CENTRE ANTOINE LACASSAGNE   (France)

^b Département de Statistiques Médicales   (France)

^c Département d'Oncologie Médicale   (France)

^d Département de Radiothérapie   (France)

^e Département de Radiologie   (France)

Author keywords

Functional outcomes; Oral cancer; Prognosis; Soft tissue reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL FOREARM FLAP; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL INFECTION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; FOREARM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MOUTH TUMOR; OROPHARYNX TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67650338289     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: 16512553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016480802369260     Document Type: Article

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