Simplifying head and neck microvascular reconstruction

Head and Neck

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 930-936

  Rosenthal, Eben ^a   Carroll, William ^a   Dobbs, Mathew ^a   Magnuson, J Scott ^a   Wax, Mark ^b   Peters, Glenn ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost efficient; Free flap; Head and neck reconstruction; Microvascular; Oral cavity; Swallowing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CATHETER ABLATION; DIET RESTRICTION; DONOR; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FACE MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FIBULA; FOLLOW UP; FOREARM; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEAD AND NECK MALFORMATION; HUMAN; JAW MALFORMATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; MOUTH MALFORMATION; OPERATION DURATION; PHARYNX DISEASE; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; REVIEW; SKIN DEFECT; SUTURING METHOD; SWALLOWING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBE FEEDING; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; FIBULA; FOREARM; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIUS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 8444234406     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20076     Document Type: Review

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