## Abstract Certain head and neck surgical cases require the patient to be positioned prone. Such positioning carries with it an attendant subset of risks and complications not otherwise encountered in more traditional supine positioning. Gaining awareness of these risks and complications, and deve
Reconstructive head and neck surgery: Predicting complication
β Scribed by Leonid Minkovich; Rajan Patel; Nicholas Mitsakakis; Stuart McCluskey; Ralph Gilbert
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 47 KB
- Volume
- 55
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1496-8975
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