Our Group organises 3000+ Global Conferenceseries Events every year across USA, Europe & Asia with support from 1000 more scientific Societies and Publishes 700+ Open Access Journals which contains over 50000 eminent personalities, reputed scientists as editorial board members.

Open Access Journals gaining more Readers and Citations
700 Journals and 15,000,000 Readers Each Journal is getting 25,000+ Readers

This Readership is 10 times more when compared to other Subscription Journals (Source: Google Analytics)

Floor of mouth window improves surgical access for trans-oral cancer surgery

5th Global Summit and Expo on Head, Neck and Plastic Surgery

Jeffson Chung, Adam Bender Heine and H Wayne Lambert

West Virginia University, USA

ScientificTracks Abstracts: Otolaryngol (Sunnyvale)

DOI: 10.4172/2161-119X-C1-016

Abstract
Statement of the Problem: The increasing incidence of HPV associated oropharyngeal cancer has sparked interest in minimally invasive transoral surgery as a primary treatment modality. However, proper surgical exposure and access to the tongue base is difficult to achieve. Many complex oral retraction systems have been developed in attempt to solve this problem but none work consistently or efficiently. Methodology: This cadaveric study introduces the floor of mouth window: A simple adjunctive procedure done at the time of transoral resection and concurrent neck dissection that greatly improves surgical access to the tongue base while eliminating the need for oral retractors. It involves passing the oral tongue through the floor of mouth into the neck dissection field, thereby creating space for robotic or laser instruments to perform cancer resection. The floor of mouth is closed primarily in layers at the end of the procedure. Findings: This study compares the tongue base exposure achievable with existing oral retractors to that achievable utilizing this novel technique. Our finding is that superior surgical exposure is attainable without retractors using the floor of mouth window. Conclusion & Significance: We believe this technique may have a major impact on the management of oropharyngeal cancers because having a simple, reproducible method to access the tongue base will encourage greater adoption of transoral surgery as a treatment modality. It is a technique that can be helpful regardless of any future advances in robot or laser technology. Furthermore, this technique reduces the reliance on multiple complicated and expensive retraction systems. Finally, the improved exposure and visualization of the tongue base attainable by this new procedure may facilitate clear surgical margins and thus maximize the potential for cure, which is ultimately the objective of all head and neck surgeons.
Biography

Jeffson Chung is the Head and Neck Oncologic Surgeon with an appointment of Assistant Professor at West Virginia University, USA. He has research interests in head and neck cancer treatment outcomes, functional outcomes, technology in the ENT practice and telemedicine.

Email: Jeffson.chung@hsc.wvu.edu

Top