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Published in final edited form as: Head Neck. 2012 Sep 26;34(12):1681–1703. doi: 10.1002/hed.23136

TABLE 2.

Comparative view of transoral robotic surgery therapy and outcomes.

TORS study	Use of free flaps	PEG tube dependence	No. (%) postop radiation	No. (%) postop chemoradiation	TORS alone (%) without adjuvant therapy
Sinclair⁶⁹	No	0	19/42 (45.2%)	13/42 (31%)	10/42 (23.8%)
Moore¹²	No	0/45 (0%)	25/45 (55.6%)	8/45 (17.8%)	12/45 (26.7%)
Genden⁶⁶	Yes^*	0/30 (0%)	14/30 (46.7%)	11/30 (36.7%)	5/30 (16.7%)
Hurtuk⁶⁷	No	1/54 (1.9%)	16/54 (29.6%)^†	33/54 (61.1%)	7/54 (12.9%)
Leonhardt⁶⁸	No	1/38 (2.6%)	22/36 (61.1%)^‡	7/36 (19.4%)	7/35 (19.4%)

Abbreviations: TORS, transoral robotic surgery; PEG tube, percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube.

1 patient;

^†

54 patients had squamous cell carcinoma;

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2 patients had prior radiation.