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Minimally Invasive Techniques: Transoral Robotic Surgery and Photodynamic Therapy

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Chemoradiation is the standard at many cancer centers for the treatment of oropharyngeal cancers. Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) has reintroduced surgery as a viable option for patients with cancers of the tonsil and tongue base. Some cancers that were previously resected with midline mandibulotomies are now taken out completely from a less invasive transoral route. TORS can be used to resect tumors of the tonsil, tongue base, supraglottic structures, parapharyngeal space, nasopharynx, and some glottic tumors [1, 4, 10, 11, 13]. Its use in the oral cavity is limited, but it can be used to remove retromolar trigone tumors [5].

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Arshad, H. (2017). Minimally Invasive Techniques: Transoral Robotic Surgery and Photodynamic Therapy. In: Kuriakose, M.A. (eds) Contemporary Oral Oncology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43854-2_14

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