Introduction: Nowadays, robotic surgery finds application in the field of head and neck in the treatment of oropharyngeal tumors. The aim of this work is to examine the efficacy of transoral robotic surgery (TORS) in performing safe oncological resections of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC), with particular attention to the status of margins.
Evidence Acquisition: Literature search of English-language studies focused on TORS through PubMed, the Cochrane Library and EMBASE databases. A total of 431 papers returned to search, but only 24 met the inclusion criteria. The review was performed according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) Guidelines.
Evidence Synthesis: Within the selected studies, the overall rate of OPSCC positive margins following TORS is minimal, especially when patient selection is adequate and when TORS is used by high volume centers.
Conclusions: TORS is a very precise and viable therapeutic tool that provides good results in terms of surgical radicality with low positive margin rates and good results in terms of overall survival and disease-free survival; however, there is still a great heterogeneity in margins definition within the available literature. Consequently, even if this surgical approach is very promising, it is still challenging to draw firm conclusions nowadays.
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