What makes a good flap go bad?: A critical analysis of the literature of intraoperative factors related to free flap failure

Laryngoscope

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 717-723

  Pattani, Kavita M ^a   Byrne, Patrick ^b   Boahene, Kofi ^b   Richmon, Jeremy ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Failure; Free flap; Microvascular; Morbidity; Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; NITROUS OXIDE; VASOACTIVE AGENT;

AGE; ANTICOAGULATION; CRYSTALLOID; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMOKING; SURGEON; TEMPERATURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 77950817521     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.20825     Document Type: Review

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