Preoperative prognostic nutritional index as a method to predict postoperative complications after major head and neck surgery with free tissue transfer reconstruction

Abstract

PNI, easily calculated, was the lone risk factor significantly predicting all C-D ≥ II and ≥ IIIa postoperative wound healing- or infection-related complications, C-D ≥ II and ≥ IIIa postoperative overall complications and prolonged hospital stay after HNS-FTTR.