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Postoperative free flap monitoring in reconstructive surgery—man or machine?
Frontiers in Surgery, 2023 Free tissue transfer is widely used for the reconstruction of complex tissue defects. The survival of free flaps depends on the patency and integrity of the microvascular anastomosis.
Samuel Knoedler +8 more
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Head and neck reconstruction with pedicled flaps in the free flap era. [PDF]
Acta otorhinolaryngologica italica, 2016 Nowadays, the transposition of microvascular free flaps is the most popular method for management of head and neck defects. However, not all patients are suitable candidates for free flap reconstruction. In addition, not every defect requires a free flap
Bonomo P. +7 more
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Archives of Plastic Surgery, 2014 Background Free flap surgery for head and neck defects has gained popularity as an advanced microvascular surgical technique. The aims of this study are first, to determine whether the known risk factors such as comorbidity, tobacco use, obesity, and ...
Yun Sub Lim +5 more
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Trends in immediate postmastectomy breast reconstruction in the United Kingdom [PDF]
, 2015 The study aimed to evaluate local and national trends in immediate breast reconstruction (IBR) using the national English administrative records, Hospital Episode Statistics.
Athanasiou, Thanos +9 more
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Frontiers in Medicine, 2020 Introduction: Coagulation assessment is often missing in microvascular surgery. We aimed at evaluating the predictive value of thromboelastometry for free flap thrombosis in microvascular surgery patients.Materials and Methods: We enrolled 103 adult ...
Indulis Vanags +8 more
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Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery Open, 2019 Background The use of negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) devices has gained wide acceptance in the management of wounds. There have been a few reported cases of its use immediately after free tissue transfer.
Jude L. Opoku-Agyeman +3 more
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Archives of Plastic Surgery, 2015 Background The purpose of this study was to compare postoperative morbidities and functional outcomes of pectoralis major myocutaneous (PMMC) flap and cutaneous free flap reconstruction approaches in hypopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma patients.
Taeyul Lee +3 more
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Prandtl–Batchelor flow past a flat plate with a forward-facing flap [PDF]
, 1984 Two-dimensional steady inviscid flow past an inclined flat plate with a forward-facing flap attached to the rear edge is considered for the case when a vortex sheet separates from the leading edge of the flat plate and reattaches at the leading edge of ...
Saffman, P. G., Tanveer, S.
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Free-Flap Reconstruction of the Tongue
Seminars in Plastic Surgery, 2019 The tongue is paramount to natural speech and swallowing, and good tongue function is important in the overall quality of life. Autologous free-flap reconstruction of the tongue after glossectomy allows for adequate speech, swallow, and quality-of-life ...
A. Vincent +4 more
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Dynamic removal of replication protein A by Dna2 facilitates primer cleavage during Okazaki fragment processing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae [PDF]
, 2008 Eukaryotic Okazaki fragments are initiated by an RNA/DNA primer, which is removed before the fragments are joined. Polymerase d displaces the primer into a flap for processing.
Bambara, Robert A. +3 more
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