PREDICTION AND PREVENTION OF FISTULAE AFTER MAJOR HEAD AND NECK SURGERY A PRELIMINARY REPORT
| Autor: | C. P. Fielder, R. P. Morton, E. B. Dorman |
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| Rok vydání: | 1988 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Fistula Wound Breakdown Amylase levels Laryngectomy Skin Diseases Preliminary report Humans Medicine Amylase Probability integumentary system biology business.industry Pharyngeal Diseases General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Surgery Regimen Head and Neck Neoplasms Anesthesia Amylases Head and neck surgery biology.protein Drainage Wounds and Injuries business |
| Zdroj: | ANZ Journal of Surgery. 58:951-953 |
| ISSN: | 1445-2197 1445-1433 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1988.tb00099.x |
| Popis: | A method of checking the integrity of mucosal repair after head and neck surgery using wound amylase levels is described. A low wound amylase concentration allows early resumption of oral intake; an increasing amylase concentration is a strong predictor of subsequent wound breakdown and fistula formation. A regimen has been developed which has prevented fistulae from developing in the small number of patients studied thus far. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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