Robotic neck surgery: Rationales and evolutions
Conventional operations for various surgical neck lesions adopted the transcervical scar, which were disfiguring and caused various postoperative morbidities. The advent of the surgical robotics as a result of advancement in technology led to a technical breakthrough in the field of head and neck su...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc.
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Asian Journal of Oncology |
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| Online Access: | http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/2454-6798.165083 |
| Summary: | Conventional operations for various surgical neck lesions adopted the transcervical scar, which were disfiguring and caused various postoperative morbidities. The advent of the surgical robotics as a result of advancement in technology led to a technical breakthrough in the field of head and neck surgery. Together with the application of the robot, we have seen the promising role of the retroauricular (RA) approach from its versatile applications. This review will discuss in detail various robotic head and neck surgeries via RA approach. |
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| ISSN: | 2454-6798 2455-4618 |