ArticleOral and maxillofacial surgery2020
Integrated surgery and radiology: trans-oral robotic surgery guided by real-time radiologist-operated intraoral ultrasound.
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- Flexible intraoperative detectors for robotic and laparoscopic image-guided surgery: a systematic review.European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2026Pooled it
- Enabling extracorporeal ultrasound imaging with the da Vinci robot for transoral robotic surgery: a feasibility study.International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery · 2024Article
- Role of Robotics in Neuromodulator and Filler Injections of Face.Indian journal of plastic surgery : official publication of the Association of Plastic Surgeons of India · 2023Article
- Towards transcervical ultrasound image guidance for transoral robotic surgery.International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery · 2023Article
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Abstract
purposeWe aimed to evaluate the feasibility and utility of intraoral ultrasound as a real-time guidance technique in trans-oral robotic surgery (TORS).
methodsWe report our early experiences of radiologist-operated intraoral ultrasound during TORS, providing information on tumour margin and important adjacent structures. Resection specimens were sonographically imaged for margin assessment.
resultsFour patients underwent ultrasound-guided TORS, with a close correlation between intraoperative and preoperative imaging in each case. The tumour was fully excised in three cases (one did not proceed due to difficult access). No ultrasound-related adverse events occurred, surgical margins were negative, and the treated patients are currently in a state of remission, with functional swallows.
conclusionIntraoperative ultrasound can allow previously inaccessible disease to be robotically resected with confidence. Sonographic interrogation of the resected specimen correlated closely with histological margin analysis, and a novel technique of using saline to improve ultrasound conductance and therefore image quality is described.
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