Use of chimeric subscapular artery system free flaps for soft-tissue reconstruction of the oral cavity and oropharynx: Advantages and donor-site morbidity

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Girod, Angélique ^a   Nadaud, Françoise ^a   Mosseri, Veronique ^a   Jouffroy, Thomas ^a   Rodriguez, José ^a  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; DONOR; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MOUTH; OROPHARYNX; PLASTIC SURGERY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCAPULA; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH; OROPHARYNX; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCAPULA; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION CHIMERA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 74049092288     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181bcf7ba     Document Type: Letter

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