Buried anterolateral thigh flap for pharyngoesophageal reconstruction: Our method for monitoring

Head and Neck

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 882-887

  Spyropoulou, Georgia Alexandra Ch ^a   Kuo, Yur Ren ^a   Chien, Chih Yen ^a   Yang, Johnson Chia Shen ^a   Jeng, Seng Feng ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Anterolateral thigh flap; Buried flaps; Microsurgical reconstruction; Monitoring; Pharyngoesophageal defects

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION STUMP; ANTEROLATERAL THIGH FLAP; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISSECTION; FILM; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LATERAL CIRCUMFLEX FEMORAL ARTERY; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; OBSERVATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PHARYNGOESOPHAGEAL RECONSTRUCTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SALVAGE THERAPY; SKIN SURFACE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMORAL ARTERY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PULSATILE FLOW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; THIGH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67650496622     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.21038     Document Type: Article

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