## Abstract In microvascular reconstructive surgery the patency of the recipient vessels is the key to successful outcome. In head and neck surgery there is often a lack of adequate recipient vessels as a result of chemoradiation therapy and ablative surgery. To overcome this it is crucial to ident
The morphology of the human lymphatic vessels in the head and neck
โ Scribed by Wei-Ren Pan; Cara Michelle le Roux; Sidney M. Levy; Christopher A. Briggs
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 819 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0897-3806
- DOI
- 10.1002/ca.21004
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