Complications after free flap surgery: Do we need a standardized classification of surgical complications?

British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 113-118

  Perisanidis, Christos ^a   Herberger, Beata ^a   Papadogeorgakis, Nikolaos ^b   Seemann, Rudolf ^a   Eder Czembirek, Christina ^a   Tamandl, Dietmar ^a   Heinze, Georg ^a   Kyzas, Panayiotis A ^c   Kanatas, Anastasios ^d   Mitchell, David ^d   Wolff, Klaus Dietrich ^e   Ewers, Rolf ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c NORTH MANCHESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d MID YORKSHIRE HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clavien Dindo classification system; Jejunum flap; Microsurgical reconstruction; Oral and oropharyngeal cancer; Postoperative complications

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; MITOMYCIN C;

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYMPTOM; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OPERATION DURATION; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN THROMBOSIS; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; HEAD; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NECK; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84857236107     PISSN: 02664356     EISSN: 15321940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjoms.2011.01.013     Document Type: Article

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