Microvascular free flaps in head and neck surgery: Complications and outcome of 1000 flaps

International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 739-743

  Pohlenz, P ^a   Klatt, J ^a   Schon G ^a   Blessmann, M ^a   Li, L ^b   Schmelzle, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complications; Free flaps; Head and neck; Salvage of free flaps

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTEROLATERAL THIGH FLAP; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CHILD; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; EDEMA; FEMALE; FIBULA; FRACTURE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT NECROSIS; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HEART INFARCTION; HEMATOMA; HEMIPLEGIA; HERNIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSIVE CRISIS; ILIAC CREST; INFECTION; JEJUNUM; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIAL FOREARM FLAP; RELIABILITY; REOPERATION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEROMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN THROMBOSIS; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NECROSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; THROMBOSIS; TRANSPLANT DONOR SITE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862789543     PISSN: 09015027     EISSN: 13990020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijom.2012.02.012     Document Type: Article

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