Indications for pedicled pectoralis major flap in a free tissue transfer practice

Head and Neck

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1106-1110

  Schneider, Daniel S ^a   Wu, Vivian ^a   Wax, Mark K ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

free flap reconstruction; head and neck cancer; pectoralis flap

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE NECROSIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT FAILURE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTITIS; MUSCLE RESECTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAROTID GLAND CANCER; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PEDICLED PECTORALIS MAJOR MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN CARCINOMA; SKIN DEFECT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THYROID CARCINOMA; TISSUE FLAP; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUTANEOUS FISTULA; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MASTITIS; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857494501     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.21868     Document Type: Article

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