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.