Outcomes comparison of head and neck free tissue transfers in three different hospital populations

Microsurgery

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 593-597

  Myers, Larry L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE CANCER; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT FAILURE; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION; IRRADIATION; ISCHEMIA; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LARYNX CANCER; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; MOUTH CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PARANASAL SINUS CANCER; PEROPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE FLAP; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VETERAN;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HOSPITALS, PRIVATE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 73249140793     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20688     Document Type: Article

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