Circumferential pharyngeal reconstruction: History, critical analysis of techniques, and current therapeutic recommendations

Head and Neck

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 109-120

  Patel, Rajan S ^a,b   Goldstein, David P ^a   Brown, Dale ^a   Irish, Jonathan ^a   Gullane, Patrick J ^a   Gilbert, Ralph W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Free flap; Laryngopharyngectomy; Pharyngeal defect; Reconstruction; Regional flap

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EAR NOSE THROAT SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; FASCIOCUTANEOUS FLAP; FISTULA; FOOD INTAKE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX CARCINOMA; LENGTH OF STAY; MORBIDITY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; NECROSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION CARE; REVIEW; SKIN FLAP; SKIN TRANSPOSITION FLAP; SPEECH; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

CARCINOMA; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; JEJUNUM; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OMENTUM; PECTORALIS MUSCLES; PHARYNX; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; STOMACH; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 75149168847     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.21169     Document Type: Review

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