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Table 15 Post-operative outcomes

From: Free versus pedicled flaps for reconstruction of head and neck cancer defects: a systematic review

 

Article

FF

PF

p-value

Operation revision

Howard, 2016

1.6 (1–3)

0.6 (0–1)

< 0.00001

1.3 (1–2)

NS

Gieger, 2016

34%

9.1%

0.003

Granzow, 2013

4 (25%)

3 (17%)

0.7

Paydarfar, 2011

2

1

ND

O’Neil, 2010

13 (16.9%)

3 (8.1%)

0.207

Demirtas, 2010

3

0

ND

Chepeha, 2004

6 (8%)

13 (12%)

0.60

Amarante, 2000

7

0

ND

Flap failure

Howard, 2016

0

0

NS

0

NS

Zhang S, 2015

1 (6.7%)

0

ND

Jing, 2014

1

0

ND

Granzow, 2013

1

0

0.5

Paydarfar, 2011

1

0

ND

Mallet, 2009

1 (4%)

14 (31%)

0.02

de Bree, 2007

1

0

ND

Smeele, 2006

2

1

ND

Mortality at 30 days

Jing, 2014

0

1

ND

Chepeha, 2004

0

6 (6%)

0.08

Mortality at 1-year

Granzow, 2013

0

0

1.0

Funk, 2002

2 (20%)

6 (28.6%)

ND

Mortality at 2-year

de Bree, 2007

13 (33%)

16 (40%)

0.602

  1. Bold = Statistically significant, p-value ≤ 0.05