A prospective cohort study of fibula free flap donor-site morbidity in 157 consecutive patients

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 714-720

  Momoh, Adeyiza O ^a   Yu, Peirong ^a   Skoracki, Roman J ^a   Liu, Suyu ^a   Feng, Lei ^a   Hanasono, Matthew M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTRACTURE; FEMALE; FIBULA; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GAIT; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL INFECTION; TRANSPLANTATION; WALKING DIFFICULTY; WOUND HEALING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CONTRACTURE; FEMALE; FIBULA; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILITY LIMITATION; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; WOUND HEALING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052463839     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e318221dc2a     Document Type: Article

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