Radial forearm free tissue transfer reduces complications in salvage skull base surgery

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 958-963

  Chepeha, Douglas B ^a   Wang, Steven J ^a   Marentette, Lawrence J ^a   Thompson, Byron G ^a   Prince, Mark E ^a   Teknos, Theodoros N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DURA MATER; FASCIOCUTANEOUS FLAP; FEMALE; FOREARM; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; MENINGITIS; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIUS FRACTURE; RISK REDUCTION; SALVAGE THERAPY; SCHOOL CHILD; SKULL IRRADIATION; SKULL SURGERY; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOTHERAPY; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL BASE; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 9644291515     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2004.05.029     Document Type: Article

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