Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) for benign pharyngeal lesions

Jason Y K Chan; Jeremy D Richmon

doi:10.1016/j.otc.2014.02.003

Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) for benign pharyngeal lesions

Otolaryngol Clin North Am. 2014 Jun;47(3):407-13. doi: 10.1016/j.otc.2014.02.003.

Authors

Jason Y K Chan¹, Jeremy D Richmon²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
² Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA. Electronic address: Jrichmo7@jhmi.edu.

PMID: 24882798
DOI: 10.1016/j.otc.2014.02.003

Abstract

Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) offers a minimally invasive approach to the pharynx with a magnified 3-dimensional view, wristed instruments with 7 degrees of freedom, and tremor filtration. TORS affords an excellent approach to benign lesions of the pharynx. This article is grouped into subsites of the nasopharynx, oropharynx, and hypopharynx, addressing patient setup, surgical technique, and postoperative management of each subsite. Although TORS has been described primarily for resection of malignant lesions of the pharynx, the setup, exposure, and anatomy described herein are identical for benign lesions, the difference being the magnitude of resection.

Keywords: Benign; Hypopharynx; Minimally invasive; Nasopharynx; Oropharynx; Robot; TORS; Transoral robotic surgery.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Humans
Mouth / surgery
Pharyngeal Diseases / surgery*
Pharynx / surgery*
Robotic Surgical Procedures*
Robotics / methods