Novel application of the palatal island flap for endoscopic skull base reconstruction

Laryngoscope

Volumn 119, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1463-1466

  Hackman, Trevor ^a   Chicoine, Michael R ^a   Uppaluri, Ravindra ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Endoscopic; Palatal island flap; Skull base reconstruction

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CHORDOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLIVAL CHORDOMA; CLIVUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOPLASTY; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE COURSE; DISSECTION; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHAGIA; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; ISLAND FLAP; LIQUORRHEA; NASOPHARYNGEAL ASPIRATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALATAL ISLAND FLAP; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SKULL TUMOR; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; TURBINATE;

AGED; CHORDOMA; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PALATE, SOFT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 68849087790     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.20298     Document Type: Article

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