Mario M Fernández-Fernández, Lourdes Montes-Jovellar González, Carlos Ramírez Calvo, Pablo Parente Arias, Francisco Clascá Cabré, Primitivo Ortega Del Álamo
The minimally invasive total laryngectomy avoids a wide surgical field and so it has the potential benefit of reducing the local morbidity, especially on radiated patients. This approach has been previously described on a robotic basis, the transoral robotic total laryngectomy (TORS-TL). We have designed a minimally invasive approach for total laryngectomy (TL) using the transoral ultrasonic surgery technique (TOUSS). TOUSS is a transoral, endoscopic, non-robotic approach for laryngeal and pharyngeal tumors, based on the ultrasonic scalpel as a resection tool...
September 2016: European Archives of Oto-rhino-laryngology