Predictors of complications of free flap reconstruction in head and neck surgery: Analysis of 304 free flap reconstruction procedures

Laryngoscope

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1014-1019

  Le Nobel, Gavin J ^a,c   Higgins, Kevin M ^a,b,c   Enepekides, Danny J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

chemoradiation; complications; free flap; Head and neck cancer; reconstructive surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS DEHISCENCE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BULKY FLAP; CANCER STAGING; CELLULITIS; FEMALE; FISTULA; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT NECROSIS; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HEART INFARCTION; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859914007     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.22454     Document Type: Article

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