Ooops, I would be remiss not to link to the latest OCF news story on Transoral surgery. It appears that the state of the art is now robotic transoral surgery using a computer screen rather than the microscope approach in the 2008 article.
OCF news story on TORS Heres an excerpt
[quote]With TORS, the robotic arms that enter the mouth include a thin camera, an arm with a cautery or laser, and an arm with a gripping tool to retract and grasp tissue. The surgeon sits at a console, controlling the instruments and viewing the three-dimensional surgical field on a screen.
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