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

Robotic surgery in head and neck cancer: A review

  • Anubha Garg

      Affiliations

    • ENT Dept., Grant Medical College, B.R. Ambedkar Road, Byculla, Mumbai 8, India
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +91 22 23735555; fax: +91 22 23791015.
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  • Raghav C. Dwivedi

      Affiliations

    • Head–Neck Unit, Royal Marsden Hospital, Fulham Road, London SW3 6J, UK
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  • Suhail Sayed

      Affiliations

    • ENT Dept., Grant Medical College, B.R. Ambedkar Road, Byculla, Mumbai 8, India
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  • Rakesh Katna

      Affiliations

    • ENT Dept., Grant Medical College, B.R. Ambedkar Road, Byculla, Mumbai 8, India
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  • Andrzej Komorowski

      Affiliations

    • Servicio de Cirugia General y del Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Juan Grande Gl. Felix Rod. de la Fuente 1, 11408 Jerez, Cadiz, Spain
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  • K.A. Pathak

      Affiliations

    • Head and Neck Surgical Oncologist, Cancer Care Manitoba, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada R3A1R9
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  • Peter Rhys-Evans

      Affiliations

    • Head–Neck Unit, Royal Marsden Hospital, Fulham Road, London SW3 6J, UK
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  • Rehan Kazi

      Affiliations

    • Head–Neck Unit, Royal Marsden Hospital, Fulham Road, London SW3 6J, UK

Received 4 March 2010 ,Revised 12 April 2010 ,Accepted 13 April 2010.

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PII: S1368-8375(10)00145-4

doi: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2010.04.005

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

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