Transoral Carbon-Dioxide Laser Microsurgery in Hypopharyngeal Carcinoma

Transoral robot-assisted carbon dioxide laser surgery for hypopharyngeal cancer.

BACKGROUND Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) has been used as a novel procedure for the resection of laryngopharyngeal cancers with promising outcomes. There are several studies proposing the benefit of combining TORS with a carbon dioxide (CO2 ) laser in resecting upper aerodigestive tract tumors. The purpose of this study was to illustrate transoral robot-assisted carbon dioxide laser surgery ...

Carbon Dioxide Laser Microsurgery for Laryngeal and Hypopharyngeal Cancer

Transoral carbon dioxide laser microsurgery for recurrent glottic carcinoma after radiotherapy.

BACKGROUND Transoral laser microsurgery is successfully performed in the treatment of primary laryngeal carcinomas. Few publications deal with the application in patients with recurrent glottic carcinomas after radiation failure. Our study aims to review our experience with transoral laser microsurgery in these patients. METHODS Thirty-four patients with early and advanced recurrent glottic c...

The Study of Vocal Function in Patients With Early Laryngeal Carcinoma After Transoral Laser Microsurgery

Objective Today transoral laser microsurgery is considered as one of the first options to control early laryngeal cancer, and voice disorder is one of the inevitable complications of this therapeutic component. This study aimed to compare the vocal function in patients with early-stage laryngeal cancer following laser surgery with healthy individuals with normal voice quality using acoustic ana...

Transoral Laser Microsurgery in Early Glottic Lesions

PURPOSE OF REVIEW To give an overview of the evolvement of transoral laser microsurgery (TLM) in the treatment of early glottic carcinoma and highlight the contribution of recent literature. RECENT FINDINGS The indications and limits of TLM have been well specified. Effects on swallowing have been well documented. Introduction of narrow-band imaging (NBI) and diffusion-weighted magnetic reson...