Is there an association between comorbidities and the outcome of microvascular free tissue transfer?

Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 127-132

  Herold, Christian ^a   Gohritz, Andreas ^a   Meyer Marcotty, Max ^a   Steiert, Andreas ^a   Jokuszies, Andreas ^a   Vaske, Bernhard ^a   Vogt, Peter Maria ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

comorbidities; Free flap; leukocyte

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; HEPARIN; PAPAVERINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTEROLATERAL THIGH FLAP; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FRACTURE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT NECROSIS; HEART FAILURE; HEMATOMA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LEG; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MICROSURGERY; OSTEOMYELITIS; PATIENT SAFETY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL WOUND; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOSIS; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRUNK; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; VASOSPASM; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEMORRHAGE;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 79951516437     PISSN: 0743684X     EISSN: 10988947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1268851     Document Type: Article

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