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Perioperative clinical factors affecting volume changes of reconstructed flaps in head and neck cancer patients: free versus regional flaps

✍ Scribed by Kwang Jae Cho; Young Hoon Joo; Dong Il Sun; Min Sik Kim

Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Weight: 668 KB
Volume: 268
Category: Article
ISSN: 0302-9530
DOI: 10.1007/s00405-010-1450-5

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