Use of microvascular flap technique in older adults with head and neck cancer: A persisting dilemma in reconstructive surgery?

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 398-405

  Kesting, Marco R ^a   Hölzle, Frank ^a   Wolff, Klaus D ^a   Wagenpfeil, Stefan ^b   Hasler, Rafael J ^a   Wales, Craig J ^c   Steinstraesser, Lars ^d   Rohleder, Nils H ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c SOUTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Elderly; Head and neck cancer; Microvascular flaps; Reconstructive surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA; ADENOSQUAMOUS CARCINOMA; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GERMANY; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PLASMACYTOMA; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REOPERATION; SARCOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79952549238     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03315.x     Document Type: Article

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