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Setting up a robotic surgical practice: view from India

4 November 2021 | | ENT, Head and Neck
Transoral robotic surgery has an established role in head and neck cancer surgery. But how easy is it to set up a service in a resource-constrained environment? Gouri Pantvaidya and Ameya Pai give us a view from the Indian subcontinent....

Cases in Head and Neck Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach

1 September 2018 | | ENT, Head and Neck
Cases in Head and Neck Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach is written by clinicians specialising in the management of patients with upper aerodigestive tract cancers in a multidisciplinary fashion. The authors have described the management of cancers in each subsite of...
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Is there a limitation for excising parapharyngeal tumours transorally?

5 November 2021 | | Head and Neck | Endoscope-assisted surgery, Minimally invasive, Parapharyngeal space tumors, Salivary neoplasm, Salivary tumors, TORS, Transoral robotic surgery, Transoral surgery
The parapharyngeal space is a complex anatomical space bounded medially by the oropharynx and laterally by the mandible. It is conceptualised as an inverted pyramid extending from base of skull above to the hyoid bone below. The space is divided...
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Laryngeal Cancer: Clinical Case-Based Approaches

4 May 2021 | | ENT, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
This book, published by Thieme, provides a lot of information in a compact size. I enjoyed reading the book as it has an international list of authors and contributors from South America, USA, Europe and Asia which gives it an...

Narrow band imaging in the management of carcinoma of unknown primary

4 May 2021 | | Head and Neck, Rhinology / Sinus | carcinoma of unknown primary, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, narrowband imagin, transoral robotic surgery
This was a retrospective study to assess the utility of narrow band imaging (NBI) in the detection of a primary site in carcinoma of unknown primary (CUP). Patients with CUP who underwent transoral robotic surgery (TORS) and preoperative imaging with...

Birmingham Minimally Invasive Head & Neck Surgery Symposium 2022

13 January 2022 -14 January 2022
A truly outstanding symposium, the first in the UK to cover all aspects of minimally invasive surgery of the head and neck delivered by a supreme and diverse faculty of experts.” (Ali Sameer Mallick, Nottingham, UK)

Robotic surgery for ventral skull base malignancy

9 October 2017 | | Malignancies, Robotic surgery, Sinonasal, Skull base, Ventral skull base
The use of transoral robotic surgery (TORS) in the head and neck area has been shown to be a safe and effective technique, achieving good oncological clearance of the oropharynx, hypopharynx, supraglottis and glottic area. However, robotic surgery for the...

Head and neck robotic surgery – considerations for the surgical trainee

4 November 2021 | | ENT, Head and Neck
In 2021, training in head and neck cancer surgery would be incomplete without some robotic resections under the belt. Henry Zhang explains how he did it and outlines the options available. With a wide range of applications in both benign...

Robotic head and neck surgery: current state of the art and future innovations

1 March 2016 | | ENT, Head and Neck
Technology and innovation has provided modern head and neck surgeons with successive generations of robotic surgical systems, fibre-optic lasers, and novel tools which have ushered in a new era of minimally invasive surgery for tumours of the pharynx and larynx....

Detecting cancer margins during robotic head and neck cancer surgery using ambient mass spectrometry

4 November 2021 | | ENT, Head and Neck
We have known about altered metabolism in cancer cells since Otto Warburg described it 97 years ago. But can we take advantage of this knowledge in curing cancer? Jim Higginson explains the value of smoke generated during cancer surgery. The...

Robotic surgery for squamous cell cancer: the new frontiers

4 November 2021 | | ENT, Head and Neck
Although the da Vinci platform was FDA approved for early-stage oropharyngeal cancers, the indications have expanded. In this article, John Hardman explains how surgeons, with greater understanding of the strengths and limitations of robotic surgery, have systematically set out to...

Emerging robotic systems for head and neck surgery

4 November 2021 | | ENT, Head and Neck
As of December 2020, seven robotic surgical systems have received approval for use in different jurisdictions, and many more task-specific robots are in the pipeline. Jack Faulkner takes us through what’s on the horizon for head and neck cancer surgery....