Page 35 - Head and neck surgery

With the surgeon operating at a distance from the

patient in the surgeon’s console, there is a lack of

tactile feedback which is in contrast to conventional
open surgery. This can lead to inadvertent soft tissue

and major vessel injury such as internal carotid

artery.

Internal carotid artery injury can result in torrential

bleeding, stroke and mortality.

Exposed carotid artery can lead to pseudoaneurysm
formation, bleeding stroke and mortality.

Department of Radiology, Queen Mary Hospital,
Hong Kong