TY - JOUR
T1 - Complications after free flap surgery
T2 - Do we need a standardized classification of surgical complications?
AU - Perisanidis, Christos
AU - Herberger, Beata
AU - Papadogeorgakis, Nikolaos
AU - Seemann, Rudolf
AU - Eder-Czembirek, Christina
AU - Tamandl, Dietmar
AU - Heinze, Georg
AU - Kyzas, Panayiotis A.
AU - Kanatas, Anastasios
AU - Mitchell, David
AU - Wolff, Klaus Dietrich
AU - Ewers, Rolf
PY - 2012/3
Y1 - 2012/3
N2 - Our main objective was to apply a standard classification to surgical complications after free flap surgery for reconstructions of the head and neck. We used the modified Clavien-Dindo classification in a cohort of 79 patients who were having reconstructions with jejunal free flaps simultaneously with resections of oral and oropharyngeal cancer. The most common minor complication was the need for a blood transfusion, and the most common major complication of a respiratory nature. The medical complications, and those at the recipient site and the donor site were 53/79 (67%), 44/79 (56%), and 9/79 (11%), respectively. The Clavien-Dindo classification is suitable and can easily be used to evaluate postoperative complications after free tissue transfer.
AB - Our main objective was to apply a standard classification to surgical complications after free flap surgery for reconstructions of the head and neck. We used the modified Clavien-Dindo classification in a cohort of 79 patients who were having reconstructions with jejunal free flaps simultaneously with resections of oral and oropharyngeal cancer. The most common minor complication was the need for a blood transfusion, and the most common major complication of a respiratory nature. The medical complications, and those at the recipient site and the donor site were 53/79 (67%), 44/79 (56%), and 9/79 (11%), respectively. The Clavien-Dindo classification is suitable and can easily be used to evaluate postoperative complications after free tissue transfer.
KW - Clavien-Dindo classification system
KW - Jejunum flap
KW - Microsurgical reconstruction
KW - Oral and oropharyngeal cancer
KW - Postoperative complications
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84857236107&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.bjoms.2011.01.013
DO - 10.1016/j.bjoms.2011.01.013
M3 - Article
C2 - 21345554
AN - SCOPUS:84857236107
SN - 0266-4356
VL - 50
SP - 113
EP - 118
JO - British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
JF - British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
IS - 2
ER -
