Monitoring buried jejunum free flaps with a sentinel: A retrospective study of 20 cases

Laryngoscope

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 519-522

  Dionyssopoulos, Alexander ^a,b   Odobescu, Andrei ^a   Foroughi, Yasmine ^a   Harris, Patrick ^a   Karagergou, Eleni ^b   Guertin, Louis ^a   Ferraro, Pasquale ^a   Danino, Alain M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Esophageal reconstruction; jejunum flap; Level of Evidence: 4; sentinel flap

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EAR NOSE THROAT SURGERY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; ESOPHAGUS RECONSTRUCTION; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNGECTOMY; JEJUNUM; JEJUNUM FREE FLAP; LARYNX TUMOR; MALE; NECK DISSECTION; PALLOR; PHARYNX TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC VEIN; TEMPERATURE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; JEJUNUM; LARYNGECTOMY; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERIES; MESENTERIC VEINS; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PHARYNGECTOMY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84857446844     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.22382     Document Type: Article

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