A 15-year experience of complex scalp reconstruction using free tissue transfer - Analysis of risk factors for complications

Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 89-98

  Fischer, John P ^a   Sieber, Brady ^a   Nelson, Jonas A ^a   Kovach, Stephen J ^a   Taylor, Jesse A ^a   Serletti, Joseph M ^a   Wu, Liza C ^a   Kanchwala, Suhail ^a   Bartlett, Scott P ^a   Low, David W ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

complications; free flap; scalp reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOPLASTY; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCALP; SMOKING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SCALP; SMOKING; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THIGH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84873057916     PISSN: 0743684X     EISSN: 10988947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1329918     Document Type: Article

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