Funding provided by the UCSD Galvanizing Engineering in Medicine Program.The authors would like to thank the UC San Diego Stem Cell Genomics Core at the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine for assistance with RNA sequencing and analysis.
While oropharyngeal cancer treatment regimens,including surgical resection,irradiation,and chemotherapy,are effective at removing tumors,they lead to muscle atrophy,denervation,and fibrosis,contributing to the pathoge...
Purpose: Swallowing function was in a patient with tongue cancer that was evaluated with video fluorography before and after subtotal glossectomy and reconstruction with a rectus abdominis muscuocutaneous flap. Materi...
Objective:The present study is a review of transoral robotic surgery (TORS) for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS).Methods:The review presents the experience of the robotic center that ...
Objective:To compare sleep-related outcomes in obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) patients following base of tongue resection via robotic surgery and endoscopic midline glossectomy.Methods:This was a re...
The incidence of close and involved tongue resection margins for squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) were reviewed with the aim to identify any possible need for change in the surgical approach to glossectomies. The histopa...