Conclusion
Achieving negative surgical margins is associated with improved survival
for OPSCC, and the development of minimally invasive approaches such as
TORS has led to decreased surgical
morbidity.1,3,10To improve negative oncologic margin rates, techniques such as FGS have
emerged as rapid and cost-effective methods of real-time intraoperative
tumor visualization. In this study, we compared the performance of a
surgical robot-integrated NIR camera system to a dedicated NIR imaging
platform for SWIG imaging during TORS for OPSCC. The combination of NIR
FMI and TORS could aid in achieving negative surgical margins, but
additional development is required to improve the technology currently
available in the robot-integrated system.