Using our head and neck service database, we reviewed 3,200 surgical procedures performed at our institution over a 7-year period. We identified 54 patients whose surgery was complicated postoperatively by wound bleeding. The procedure most often complicated by wound bleeding was parotidectomy, 1.7%
Hypothyroidism and wound healing—Occurrence after head and neck radiation and surgery
✍ Scribed by Penn, Randall R.
- Book ID
- 123219753
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 165 KB
- Volume
- 41
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1531-5053
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