Free flaps in elderly patients: Outcomes and complications in head and neck reconstruction after oncological resection

Journal of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 167-171

  Ferrari, S ^a   Copelli, C ^a   Bianchi, B ^a   Ferri, A ^a   Poli, T ^a   Ferri, T ^a   Sesenna, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Elderly patients; Free flaps; Post operative reconstructive and medical complications

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANASTOMOSIS; ANTEROLATERAL THIGH FLAP; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BLINDNESS; BONE GRAFT; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CECITY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHYLOTHORAX; COMORBIDITY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DELIRIUM TREMENS; DONOR SITE; DONOR SITE ARTERIAL THROMBOSIS; DONOR SITE FRACTURE; DONOR SITE GRAFT NECROSIS; DONOR SITE MOTILITY DEFICIT; FEMALE; FIBULA GRAFT; FISTULA; FLAP ARTERIAL THROMBOSIS; FLAP VENOUS THROMBOSIS; FOLLOW UP; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEMATOMA; HERNIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ILIAC CREST FLAP; INCIDENCE; ITALY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LATERAL ARM FLAP; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; OPERATION DURATION; PARTIAL FLAP LOSS; PARTIAL NECROSIS; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIAL FOREARM FLAP; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE FLAP; SEROMA; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TOTAL FLAP NECROSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPERATIVE TIME; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SMOKING; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84872687252     PISSN: 10105182     EISSN: 18784119     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcms.2012.07.005     Document Type: Article

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