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Robotic Surgery Practical for Some Head, Neck Tumors
Posted 3+ months ago by Drugs.com
MONDAY, April 20 – Robot-assisted surgery may be useful for removal of certain head and neck cancers, U.S. researchers say.
Their study included 36 patients with oral cavity, throat or larynx tumors. Of those patients, 29 (81 percent) underwent successful robotic-assisted surgical removal of the cancerous tissue. Negative margins (when no cancer cells are found at the edge or border of the removed tissue) were obtained in all of those 29 patients. The average operating time was 99 minutes, and the average hospital stay was 2.9 days.
Patients with smaller tumors and no teeth appeared more likely to have successful robot-assisted surgery, noted Dr. Bridget A. Boudreaux and colleagues at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Read more...
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