© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015Gregory A. Grillone and Scharukh Jalisi (eds.)Robotic Surgery of the Head and Neck10.1007/978-1-4939-1547-7_3 Establishing a Head and Neck Robotic Program at Your Institution Scharukh Jalisi1 and Prachi Nene2 (1) Department…
© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015Gregory A. Grillone and Scharukh Jalisi (eds.)Robotic Surgery of the Head and Neck10.1007/978-1-4939-1547-7_4 Costs Versus Outcomes of Robotic Surgery of the Head and Neck Scharukh Jalisi1 and Shaheer Piracha2 (1)…
Fig. 5.1 MRI revealed a 42 × 25 × 25 mm lesion on the right side of oral tongue The biopsy from the lesion in the tongue revealed well-differentiated squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). Right…
Fig. 9.1 (a) Suspicious mucosal thickening in supraglottic area on MRI. (b–d) Large conglomerate of coalesced nodal metastases measuring 5 × 2.9 × 5 cm at about the hyoid level on PET/CT images He…
Fig. 6.1 (a–d) MRI sagittal (a) and coronal (b) and axial (c) images and PET-CT (d) display left nasopharyngeal lesion filling the Rosenmuller fossa invading through the pharyngobasilar fascia and…
Fig. 7.1 MRI (a) axial and coronal images and PET-CT (b) display an oropharyngeal left palatine tonsillar tumor extending superiorly to left anterior tonsillar pillar, anterior inferiorly to base of…
Level Lymphatics Ia Submental lymphatics Ib Submandibular lymphatics II Upper jugular lymph nodes III Middle jugular lymph nodes IV Lower jugular lymph nodes (transverse cervical) V Spinal accessory chain lymph…
Fig. 8.1 Diagnostic images demonstrating a 30 × 22 × 17 mm lesion originating from the right pyriform sinus and invading the larynx (arrow) through the arytenoid cartilage (a, magnetic resonance imaging; b, FDG-positron…
Fig. 11.1 Multiple hypermetabolic lymph nodes on left levels IIA, IIB, and III A biopsy was performed from these lymph nodes confirming the metastatic carcinoma of squamous cell type. He…
Location Clinically N+ (%) Clinically N−, pathologically N+ (%) Glottic larynx – 15 Supraglottic larynx 39 26 Piriform sinus 49 59 Pharyngeal wall 50 37 Oral tongue 12 33 Floor…
