Transoral Robotic Surgery in the Nordic Countries: Current Status and Perspectives
Background: The five Nordic countries with a population of 27 M people form a rather homogenous region in terms of health care. The management of head and neck cancer is centralized to the 21 university hospitals in these countries. Our aim was to gain an overview of the volume and role of transoral...
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| author | Antti A. Mäkitie Antti A. Mäkitie Harri Keski-Säntti Mari Markkanen-Leppänen Leif Bäck Petri Koivunen Tomas Ekberg Karl Sandström Göran Laurell Mathias von Beckerath Johan S. Nilsson Peter Wahlberg Lennart Greiff Lena Norberg Spaak Thomas Kjærgaard Christian Godballe Oddveig Rikardsen Hani Ibrahim Channir Niclas Rubek Christian von Buchwald |
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| description | Background: The five Nordic countries with a population of 27 M people form a rather homogenous region in terms of health care. The management of head and neck cancer is centralized to the 21 university hospitals in these countries. Our aim was to gain an overview of the volume and role of transoral robotic surgery (TORS) and to evaluate the need to centralize it in this area as the field is rapidly developing.Materials and Methods: A structured questionnaire was sent to all 10 Departments of Otorhinolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery in the Nordic countries having an active programme for TORS in December 2017.Results: The total cumulative number of performed robotic surgeries at these 10 Nordic centers was 528 and varied between 5 and 240 per center. The median annual number of robotic surgeries was 38 (range, 5–60). The observed number of annually operated cases remained fairly low (<25) at most of the centers.Conclusions: The present results showing a limited volume of performed surgeries call for considerations to further centralize TORS in the Nordic countries. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3cda088dd3c84c6fa9234eb97e6ab9692022-12-22T01:17:20ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Oncology2234-943X2018-07-01810.3389/fonc.2018.00289369491Transoral Robotic Surgery in the Nordic Countries: Current Status and PerspectivesAntti A. Mäkitie0Antti A. Mäkitie1Harri Keski-Säntti2Mari Markkanen-Leppänen3Leif Bäck4Petri Koivunen5Tomas Ekberg6Karl Sandström7Göran Laurell8Mathias von Beckerath9Johan S. Nilsson10Peter Wahlberg11Lennart Greiff12Lena Norberg Spaak13Thomas Kjærgaard14Christian Godballe15Oddveig Rikardsen16Hani Ibrahim Channir17Niclas Rubek18Christian von Buchwald19Department of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, FinlandDivision of Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases, Department of Clinical Sciences, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, SwedenDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, FinlandDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, FinlandDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, FinlandDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, FinlandDepartment of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, SwedenDepartment of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, SwedenDepartment of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, SwedenDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, SwedenDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, SwedenDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, SwedenDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, SwedenDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Umeå University Hospital, Umeå, SwedenDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, DenmarkDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark0Department of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital North Norway, Tromsoe, Norway1Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery and Audiology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark1Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery and Audiology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark1Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery and Audiology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DenmarkBackground: The five Nordic countries with a population of 27 M people form a rather homogenous region in terms of health care. The management of head and neck cancer is centralized to the 21 university hospitals in these countries. Our aim was to gain an overview of the volume and role of transoral robotic surgery (TORS) and to evaluate the need to centralize it in this area as the field is rapidly developing.Materials and Methods: A structured questionnaire was sent to all 10 Departments of Otorhinolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery in the Nordic countries having an active programme for TORS in December 2017.Results: The total cumulative number of performed robotic surgeries at these 10 Nordic centers was 528 and varied between 5 and 240 per center. The median annual number of robotic surgeries was 38 (range, 5–60). The observed number of annually operated cases remained fairly low (<25) at most of the centers.Conclusions: The present results showing a limited volume of performed surgeries call for considerations to further centralize TORS in the Nordic countries.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fonc.2018.00289/fullhead and necksurgerymanagementcentralizationcancer |
| spellingShingle | Antti A. Mäkitie Antti A. Mäkitie Harri Keski-Säntti Mari Markkanen-Leppänen Leif Bäck Petri Koivunen Tomas Ekberg Karl Sandström Göran Laurell Mathias von Beckerath Johan S. Nilsson Peter Wahlberg Lennart Greiff Lena Norberg Spaak Thomas Kjærgaard Christian Godballe Oddveig Rikardsen Hani Ibrahim Channir Niclas Rubek Christian von Buchwald Transoral Robotic Surgery in the Nordic Countries: Current Status and Perspectives Frontiers in Oncology head and neck surgery management centralization cancer |
| title | Transoral Robotic Surgery in the Nordic Countries: Current Status and Perspectives |
| title_full | Transoral Robotic Surgery in the Nordic Countries: Current Status and Perspectives |
| title_fullStr | Transoral Robotic Surgery in the Nordic Countries: Current Status and Perspectives |
| title_full_unstemmed | Transoral Robotic Surgery in the Nordic Countries: Current Status and Perspectives |
| title_short | Transoral Robotic Surgery in the Nordic Countries: Current Status and Perspectives |
| title_sort | transoral robotic surgery in the nordic countries current status and perspectives |
| topic | head and neck surgery management centralization cancer |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fonc.2018.00289/full |
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