Integrated surgery and radiology: trans-oral robotic surgery guided by real-time radiologist-operated intraoral ultrasound.
Edward D GreenVinidh PaleriJohn C HardmanCyrus KerawalaFrancesco M G RivaAlaa A JalyDerfel Ap DafyddPublished in: Oral and maxillofacial surgery (2020)
Intraoperative ultrasound can allow previously inaccessible disease to be robotically resected with confidence. Sonographic interrogation of the resected specimen correlated closely with histological margin analysis, and a novel technique of using saline to improve ultrasound conductance and therefore image quality is described.