Page 12 - Head and neck surgery

In the absence of an identifiable primary, patients

would undergo neck dissection followed by

wide-field radiotherapy spanning the skull base
and lower neck with the hope of eradicating

small primary tumours within the upper

aerodigestive tract.

With TORS, tonsillar tissue within the

oropharynx, in particular lingual tonsils in the
tongue base can be removed as a last resort to

identify the primary within the oropharynx.

Tongue base mucosectomy eliminates sampling
error associated with random tongue base

biopsy. Video showing TORS bilateral tongue base mucosectomy