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Complications of free tissue grafts for glottic reconstruction
Author(s) -
Quinn Harold J.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
the laryngoscope
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.181
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1531-4995
pISSN - 0023-852X
DOI - 10.1288/00005537-198303000-00009
Subject(s) - medicine , surgery , glottis , complication , larynx
Forty patients who underwent hemilaryngectomy and immediate glottic reconstruction, using free tissue grafts to construct a pseudocord, were studied. The overall complication rate was 18%. There were three minor complications and four major complications. These are reviewed in detail.