Transoral laser microsurgery
The role of transoral robotic surgery, transoral laser microsurgery, and lingual tonsillectomy in the identification of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma of unknown primary origin: a systematic review
... Recently, Transoral Laser Microsurgery (TLM) and Transoral Robotic Surgery (TORS) have emerged as ef- fective modalities to aid in the identification and treat- ment of an unknown primary ...
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Original Article Oncologic outcomes of transoral laser microsurgery for T3 laryngeal carcinoma: a meta-analysis
... Abstract: Laryngeal carcinomas are the second most common type of head and neck tumors, most of which are squamous cell carcinomas. The specific choice of treatment of T3 laryngeal (glottic or supraglottic) squamous cell ...
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Systematic review and meta-analysis of T1 glottic cancer outcomes comparing CO2 transoral laser microsurgery and radiotherapy
... ‘transoral laser microsurgery’, ‘trans oral laser microsur- gery’, ‘endoscopic surgery’, microsurgery, ‘CO2 laser’, ‘carbon dioxide laser’), and RT (radiotherapy, radio- ...
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A retrospective review in the management of T3 laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma: an expanding indication for transoral laser microsurgery
... either transoral laser microsurgery +/- adjunctive radiation therapy (TLM), chemoradiation (CRT) or radiation therapy (RT) ...cation. Transoral laser surgery was performed using a ...
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Laryngeal recurrence sites in patients previously treated with transoral laser microsurgery for squamous cell carcinoma
... structures. Transoral laser microsurgery (TLM) for laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) may violate these boundaries, altering the pathways of tumor spread for potential ...
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Improvements in high Resolution laryngeal Magnetic Resonance Imaging for preoperative Transoral laser Microsurgery and Radiotherapy considerations in early lesions
... of transoral laser microsurgery (TLM) in glottic carcinoma treatments become better defined, pretreatment imaging has become more important to assess the case-specific suitability of TLM and to ...
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Transoral laser microsurgery for supraglottic and hypopharyngeal squamous cancers
... laryngectomies for supraglottic cancers have a very high incidence of aspiration in the post-operative period with resultant delay in restoration of swallowing. This is even more so for the voice conserving open ...
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Transoral laser microsurgery for the treatment of oropharyngeal cancer: the Dalhousie University experience
... All patients in the cohort underwent TLM resection. At the time of resection, a FK Retractor and/or Bouchayer laryngoscope was used to obtain adequate tumour ex- posure. Once adequate exposure was obtained, tumours were ...
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Oncological and functional outcomes following transoral laser microsurgery in patients with T2a vs T2b glottic squamous cell carcinoma
... This is the first study to compare functional voice out- comes between T2a and T2b patients treated with trans- oral laser microsurgery, and only the second to identify differences in oncological outcomes ...
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Functional outcomes in early (T1/T2) supraglottic cancer: a systematic review
... Methods: We searched Medline, EMBASE and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials to identify studies. Studies were included if they reported functional outcomes on 10 or more patients with early stage SGC treated ...
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The application of TORS – into the larynx
... is transoral access using transoral laser microsurgery (TLM), electrosurgical methods and ...patients. Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) is one of the fastest growing areas of head and ...
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Transoral Robot-Assisted Surgery in Supraglottic and Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Laser Versus Monopolar Electrocautery
... the transoral robotic approach has represented an effective and validated option in the management of T1 or T2 oropharyngeal and supraglottic tumours ...surgery, transoral laser microsurgery, ...
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Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery (TEM) for Rectal Neoplasms
... Introduction: The abdominal approach for the treatment of rectal tumors is associated with a considerable rate of mor- bidity. Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery (TEM) is an alternative technique that is less ...
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Laryngeal Dystonia, New Approaches for Direct Botulinum Toxin Administration
... In comparison to a previous publication, in which the average duration of treatment efficacy was reported to be approximately 120 days (4 months) for both unilateral and bilateral BoNT-A injections [14]. In our study, ...
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Sonographically Guided Aspiration Cytology of Neck Nodes for Selection of Treatment and Follow up in Patients with N0 Head and Neck Cancer
... after his transoral excision, a 30-mm submandibular node was palpated that was not seen on the previous sonographically guided needle cytology. In patient 3, two follow-up sonographically guided examina- tions ...
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Comparability of localization data in transnasal and transoral esophagogastroduodenoscopy
... The data for all 135 patients recruited for and examined in the study were evaluated relative to the study aim. With transoral access, the distance from the upper incisors to the cardia was a mean of 40.5 cm (SD ± ...
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ESGE Newsletter
... and microsurgery, As they were members of the Slovenian Society for Reproductive Medicine, this society became a member of the Slovenian Society for Endoscopic Surgery (SSES), which includes all branches of ...
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Contemporary Approaches to Diagnostics and Treatment of Foramen Magnum Meningiomas
... FM meningiomas are limited tumors that spread within the anatomical area without significant bone invasion, the removal of which usually does not require modified surgical approaches. Mainly ventral neoplasms location ...
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Transanal endoscopic microsurgery: results of the first 50 cases
... Transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM) was in- troduced by Gerhard Buess from Germany in 1983 (1). Since then it has been widely used as an alter- native to local excision or major abdominal surgery for benign ...
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Use of an intraoperative navigation system and piezoelectric surgery for styloidectomy in a patient with Eagle’s syndrome: a case report
... and transoral approaches ...The transoral approach is commonly accepted due to super- ior cosmetic results; however, this approach has the dis- advantage of compromised intraoperative ...
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