Novel technique of creating a seal for the vacuum-assisted closure system application in complex head and neck wounds

Head and Neck

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2016, Pages E2523-E2526

  Tian, Brian ^a   Iyer, N Gopalakrishna ^a   Tan, Hiang Khoon ^a   Tay, Ai Choo ^b   Soo, Khee Chee ^a   Tan, Ngian Chye ^a  

^a DIVISION OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

breakdown; fistula; flap; novel; vacuum assisted closure (VAC)

Indexed keywords

SEALANT;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ANTEROLATERAL THIGH FLAP; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FIBULA GRAFT; FOLLOW UP; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; LARYNGECTOMY; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MANDIBLE RESECTION; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH CAVITY; MOUTH DISEASE; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NECK DISSECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OROCUTANEOUS FISTULA; OROPHARYNX; PHARYNGECTOMY; PHARYNGOCUTANEOUS FISTULA; PHARYNX CANCER; PHARYNX CARCINOMA; PHARYNX DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUS; PYRIFORM SINUS; SKIN FISTULA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL GLOVE; TRACHEOSTOMY; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE DEVICE; WOUND CARE; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEALING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL FLAPS; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CUTANEOUS FISTULA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84994476466     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.24563     Document Type: Article

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