Free flaps: Outcomes and complications in head and neck reconstructions

Journal of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 438-442

  Bianchi, Bernardo ^a   Copelli, Chiara ^a   Ferrari, Silvano ^a   Ferri, Andrea ^a   Sesenna, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

free flaps; head and neck; major and minor complications

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMELOBLASTOMA; ARTICLE; BONE NECROSIS; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SMOKING HABIT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMELOBLASTOMA; CHILD; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEAD; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; OSTEONECROSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; THROMBOSIS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350569330     PISSN: 10105182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcms.2009.05.003     Document Type: Article

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