Introduction: Robotic and endoscopic neck surgery beyond transoral robotic surgery and Transoral lasers resection

Transoral laser resection is a well-established surgical procedure for selected patients with early-stage oropharynx, larynx, or hypopharynx cancer. Robotic surgery was introduced in head and neck surgical oncology in 2005. Recently, studies have been written extolling minimally invasive transoral robotic surgery (TORS) as the treatment of choice for certain patients due to similar oncologic outcomes and better functional results when compared to standard (transcervical) surgical techniques or chemoradiation.

Source: Operative Techniques in Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery - October 22, 2021 Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Luiz Paulo Kowalski, Renan Bezerra Lira Source Type: research