Patient with Difficult to Reach Tumor Saved Using Transoral Robotic Surgery

A man with a cancer called chordoma, which afflicted the bones in the skull base and spine, has had a novel transoral robotic surgery (TORS) performed on him to remove a difficult to access tumor. The clinical team at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, which developed a set of TORS techniques, managed to reach the tumor using robotic (Read more...)

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