title: Endoscopic-Assisted Palatal Surgery Via Transoral and Intranasal Approach.
abstract: Palate carcinoma often challenges to the treatment options. It depends on the histologic type, local invasion, and nodal or distant metastasis. Hard palate tumors that invade the nasal cavity can be operated by midfacial degloving approach, lateral rhinotomy approach, and lip splitting incision with infrastructure maxillectomy. These approaches inevitably coincide with facial scars, nerve injuries, facial swelling, and long hospital stay. Transoral robotic assisted surgery can be applied; however, this needs high price and has a weakness of accurate handling about intranasal lesion. The authors have performed transoral and intranasal endoscopic-assisted palatal removal of recurrent palatal carcinoma for a patient and herein report their technique and result.
authors.affiliation: *Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Chonbuk National University, Research Institute of Clinical Medicine, Chonbuk National University and Chonbuk National University Hospital †Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Presbyterian Medical Center, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Jong Seung
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Ki Hwan
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Hong
authors.forename: Eun Jung
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Eun Ji
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Cha Dong
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Yeo
authors.forename: Byung Un
authors.initials: BU
authors.lastname: Hwang
authors.forename: Jeong Seok
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D008949:Adenoma, Pleomorphic / Q000601:surgery*; D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D057605:Natural Orifice Endoscopic Surgery / Q000379:methods; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000601:surgery; D009666:Nose; D019647:Oral Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D010157:Palatal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*