Mount Sinai head and neck surgical oncologists (Drs. Genden, Berger, Chai, Khan, Kirke, Roof, Teng, Urken) are on the forefront of treating head and neck cancers utilizing minimally invasive, transoral robotic surgical procedure. As one of many first adopters of this know-how, we even have a wealth of expertise in deploying it successfully. The place surgical procedure to entry the again of the throat would have beforehand required splitting the jaw in half and a two week keep within the hospital, many of those tumors are resected robotically by the mouth and with a brief keep within the hospital. The surgical robotic can be utilized for tonsil and base of tongue cancers, a lot of that are HPV+. The robotic can be used for tumors of the larynx and nasopharynx, albeit much less generally so.
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The Mount Sinai Otolaryngology Surgical Video Collection was edited by Dr. Zachary Schwam.
