Etiologic causes of late osteocutaneous free flap failures in oral cavity cancer reconstruction

Laryngoscope

Volumn 122, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1474-1479

  Zender, Chad A ^a   Mehta, Vikas ^b   Pittman, Amy L ^c   Feustel, Paul J ^d   Jaber, James J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced oral cavity cancer; etiology of late graft failures; osteocutaneous free flap; reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE NECROSIS; CELLULITIS; FEMALE; FISTULA; GRAFT FAILURE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANDIBLE RECONSTRUCTION; MANDIBLE RESECTION; MOUTH CANCER; OSTEOCUTANEOUS FLAP; OSTEOMYELITIS; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PERIOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; HUMANS; MALE; MANDIBULAR NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; ORAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 84862906946     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.23326     Document Type: Article

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