Transoral Robotic Surgery in the Management of HPV Negative Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

The Role of Transoral Robotic Surgery in the Management of HPV Negative Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

R Sload, N Silver, BA Jawad, ND Gross - Current Oncology Reports, 2016

... Tracheotomy rates with traditional open surgical techniques approaches 100 %. With a transoral
approach, there is a significant reduction of tracheotomy rates (0–2 %), shorter time to
decannulation when a tracheotomy is placed, and shorter hospitalization time [34, 38, 39,]. ...