little is known about survival, longevity, dispersal, and social organisation of tree weta in the wild (Trewick and Morgan-Richards, 1995). Their relatively large size for an insect allows tree weta to be easily tagged. This, plus their flightlessness, potentially makes them ideal species for mark-recapture studies. The mountain stone weta, Hemideina maori (Pictet and Saussure), is unusual for ...

The growing practice of endoscopic surgery has changed the therapeutic management of selected head and neck cancers. Although a negative surgical margin in resection of neoplasm is the most important surgical principle in oncologic surgery, controversies exist regarding assessment and interpretation of the status of margin resection. The aim of this review was to summarize the literature consid...

OBJECTIVE To develop a minimally invasive surgical technique for the treatment of base of tongue neoplasms using the optical and technical advantages of robotic surgical instrumentation. STUDY DESIGN Ten experimental procedures including tongue base exposure and dissections were performed on three cadavers and two mongrel dogs. Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) was then performed on three huma...

Management of cancer of the oropharynx has undergone a paradigm shift in recent years following the realisation that HPV infection is both an aetiologic and prognostic factor for a subset of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma; the introduction of transoral robotic surgery (TORS) to resect oropharyngeal tumours; as well as attempts to reduce the morbidity of chemoradiation by accepting smalle...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To determine the prognostic influence of p16(INK4a) immunohistochemistry on the survival of resectable oropharyngeal carcinomas (OPSCC). STUDY DESIGN Retrospective pathologic evaluation of a prospective single-arm cohort study at a tertiary referral center. METHODS There were 48 patients with resectable OPSCC who consented for transoral robotic surgery (TORS) and banke...

IMPORTANCE This study investigates the effectiveness of combined palatal surgery and transoral robotic surgical (TORS) tongue base reduction with partial epiglottidectomy in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in an Asian context. To our knowledge, this is the first report on TORS for OSA in Asian patients in the literature. OBJECTIVE To report our preliminary experience with combi...