Total glossectomy with laryngeal preservation and free flap reconstruction: Objective functional outcomes and systematic review of the literature

Laryngoscope

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 140-145

  Dziegielewski, Peter T ^a   Ho, Michael L ^a   Rieger, Jana ^a   Singh, Prabhjyot ^a   Langille, Morgan ^a   Harris, Jeffrey R ^b   Seikaly, Hadi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Alberta Health Services Covenant Health University of Alberta   (Canada)

Author keywords

anterolateral thigh free flap; functional outcomes; Level of Evidence: 4; oral cancer; quality of life; swallowing rehabilitation; Total glossectomy; total glossectomy with laryngeal preservation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GASTROSTOMY; GLOSSECTOMY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; ORGAN PRESERVATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPEECH; STOMACH TUBE; SWALLOWING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TONGUE CANCER; TOTAL GLOSSECTOMY WITH LARYNGEAL PRESERVATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COHORT STUDIES; DEGLUTITION; FEMALE; GLOSSECTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SURGICAL FLAPS; TONGUE; TONGUE NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84871713037     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.23505     Document Type: Article

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