OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To report preliminary experience in the utilization of transoral robotic surgical (TORS) techniques in pediatric airway surgery. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective case series. METHODS A retrospective chart review was performed on all pediatric patients undergoing robotic airway surgery at a university-based children's hospital between August 2010 and December 2012. RESULTS ...

The article presented by Bhayani, Holsinger, and Lai thoroughly evaluates the emergence of transoral robotic surgery (TORS) as a technique in the field of otolaryngology. Transoral approaches to the upper aerodigestive tract, whether for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes, represent core tenets of the discipline and formed one of the bases for the inception of the specialty. Innovations and ref...

Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) offers many technical advancements to existing endoscopic and transoral surgical approaches. This has faciliated a safer, less morbid and potentially more effective application of surgery to the management of both benign and malignant diseases in the head and neck. As this surgical approach gains widespread acceptance, it is important for all members of the trea...