Reconstruction of circumferential pharyn
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Pen-Yuan Chu; Shyue-Yih Chang
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Article
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2002
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract ## Background Hypopharyngeal cancer often presents at an advanced stage. Radical surgery has played an important role in the treatment of these cases; however, it always results in a large, or even a circumferential, defect of the pharyngoesophageal segment (PES) that causes some diffi