Robotic surgery in head and neck cancer: A review

Garg, Anubha; Dwivedi, Raghav C.; Sayed, Suhail; Katna, Rakesh; Komorowski, Andrzej; Pathak, K.A.; Rhys-Evans, Peter; Kazi, Rehan

doi:10.1016/j.oraloncology.2010.04.005

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Volume 46, Issue 8 , Pages 571-576, August 2010

Robotic surgery in head and neck cancer: A review

Anubha Garg
- ENT Dept., Grant Medical College, B.R. Ambedkar Road, Byculla, Mumbai 8, India
- Corresponding author. Tel.: +91 22 23735555; fax: +91 22 23791015.
Raghav C. Dwivedi
- Head–Neck Unit, Royal Marsden Hospital, Fulham Road, London SW3 6J, UK
Suhail Sayed
- ENT Dept., Grant Medical College, B.R. Ambedkar Road, Byculla, Mumbai 8, India
Rakesh Katna
- ENT Dept., Grant Medical College, B.R. Ambedkar Road, Byculla, Mumbai 8, India
Andrzej Komorowski
- Servicio de Cirugia General y del Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Juan Grande Gl. Felix Rod. de la Fuente 1, 11408 Jerez, Cadiz, Spain
K.A. Pathak
- Head and Neck Surgical Oncologist, Cancer Care Manitoba, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada R3A1R9
Peter Rhys-Evans
- Head–Neck Unit, Royal Marsden Hospital, Fulham Road, London SW3 6J, UK
Rehan Kazi
- Head–Neck Unit, Royal Marsden Hospital, Fulham Road, London SW3 6J, UK

Received 4 March 2010; received in revised form 12 April 2010; accepted 13 April 2010. published online 09 June 2010.

Summary

The invasion of robotic technology in surgical fields cannot be ignored. Its success in various surgical disciplines especially in urology, cardiology, and gynaecology has set its own benchmarks. Extrapolation of similar results in head and neck is still in experimental stages and long term results are still eagerly awaited to truly establish its efficacy beyond awe and reality. Nonetheless, its future role in this area is inevitable given the encouraging results obtained so far. This article covers the inception to current application to speculation of robotic technology in complex area of head and neck surgery.

Keywords: Robotic surgery, Head–neck cancer, Oral cancer, Oropharyngeal cancer, Laryngeal cancer, da Vinci Surgical Robot, Transoral laser surgery (TORS), Minimally invasive surgery (MIS)