title: [Transoral laser resection for head and neck cancers].
abstract: Transoral laser surgery has become a therapeutic option and even a standard for certain tumors of the larynx and pharynx. The postoperative course after this type of minimally invasive surgery has been shown to be significantly simpler, with less need for temporary tracheotomy and enteral feeding. For selected tumors amenable to this approach, the oncologic results have been shown to be equivalent to those obtained by classic external approaches. Transoral laser surgery requires specific equipment and training of the surgeon, the anaesthesiologist, the operating room team and the pathologist. Despite this specificity, but because of the simplified postoperative course, transoral laser surgery has already supplanted several external approaches and will in the future probably replace other techniques, as experience with the technique increases and the indications evolve.
authors.affiliation: Département de chirurgie cervicofaciale et ORL, Institut Gustave-Roussy, 39, rue Camille-Desmoulins, 94805 Villejuif Cedex, France. hartl@igr.fr
authors.forename: Dana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hartl
mesh_terms: D005931:Glottis / Q000601:surgery; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007822:Laryngeal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D007825:Laryngectomy / Q000379:methods; D007828:Laryngoscopy / Q000379:methods; D017075:Laser Coagulation / Q000379:methods; D053685:Laser Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D010610:Pharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D014827:Vocal Cords / Q000601:surgery
vernacular_title: La chirurgie par voie endoscopique au laser en cancérologie cervicofaciale.