Transoral supraglottic laryngectomy using a next-generation single-port robotic surgical system

Ryan K Orosco1, Kenric Tam2, Meijin Nakayama3

  • 1Division of Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego, California.

Head & Neck
|February 19, 2019
PubMed
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