Factors influencing survival of free-flap in reconstruction for cancer of the head and neck: A literature review

Microsurgery

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 242-248

  Kruse, Astrid L D ^a   Luebbers, Heinz T ^a   Grätz, Klaus W ^a   Obwegeser, Joachim A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMOXICILLIN; CLAVULANATE POTASSIUM; CLINDAMYCIN; DEXTRAN; HEPARIN; PROSTAGLANDIN E1; PROTEOGLYCAN; STREPTOKINASE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; UROKINASE;

ANAPHYLAXIS; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN EDEMA; BREATHING EXERCISE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CELL INFILTRATION; CHEMOTHERAPY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; ENDOTHELIUM LESION; EXTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; FLOW RATE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SALVAGE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HEART FAILURE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; IMMUNITY; INFLAMMATION; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; LAMINAR FLOW; LARYNX CANCER; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG FUNCTION; MICROSURGERY; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; MOBILIZATION; MOUTH MUCOSA; NEGATIVE PRESSURE VENTILATION; NEPHROTOXICITY; NUTRITION; PAROTIDECTOMY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; REVIEW; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STOMACH ULCER; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOCYTE DYSFUNCTION; TRACHEOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN GRAFT; VEIN THROMBOSIS; WOUND INFECTION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTICOAGULANTS; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; RADIOTHERAPY; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURGICAL FLAPS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TISSUE SURVIVAL; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 77950443676     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20758     Document Type: Review

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