Minimally invasive surgery for head and neck cancer.

Minimally invasive surgery has been adopted in many areas of surgery to reduce patient morbidity during surgical resection. To achieve this, endoscopic instrumentation coupled with improved imaging and localisation techniques have been developed, to enable adequate resection of tumours with minimum damage to surrounding tissues. We review two emerging technologies, robotic assisted surgery and intraoperative imaging.

Two cases of epithelioid angiosarcoma involving the thyroid and a brief review of non-Alpine epithelioid angiosarcoma of the thyroid.

Epithelioid angiosarcoma involving the thyroid is a rare entity, more often described in the Alpine region. Two cases of epithelioid angiosarcoma that affected the thyroid in patients from a non-Alpine location were diagnosed during a 10-year period in our department. The first case occurred in an 89-year-old Chinese man with a history of longstanding goiter, whereas the second case involved a 74-year-old Chinese man with a history of angiosarcoma of the scalp.