A Rare Presentation of Recalcitrant Oropharyngeal Stenosis in a 54-Year-Old Male Patient Following Transoral Robotic Surgery for Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Pietro Canzi; Eugenia Maiorano; Fabio Sovardi; Matteo Nardo; Antonio Occhini; Marco Benazzo

doi:10.12659/AJCR.937123

24 November 2022 : Case report Italy

A Rare Presentation of Recalcitrant Oropharyngeal Stenosis in a 54-Year-Old Male Patient Following Transoral Robotic Surgery for Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Unusual or unexpected effect of treatment, Diagnostic / therapeutic accidents, Educational Purpose (only if useful for a systematic review or synthesis)

Pietro Canzi

^12ABCDEF*, Eugenia Maiorano^1BCDEF, Fabio Sovardi

^1CDEF, Matteo Nardo

^12BF, Antonio Occhini^1CDF, Marco Benazzo^12ABCDEF

DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.937123

Am J Case Rep 2022; 23:e937123

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Table 1. Oropharyngeal stenosis after TORS: review of the literature.

Authors	Enrollment criteria	Multilevel/single level surgery	No. of patients	No. of stenosis
Lin et al []⁵	OSAS	Single level surgery (11/39 patients)Multilevel surgery (28/39 patients)	39	3
Vicini et al []¹	OSAS	Multilevel surgery	234	1
Muderris et al []⁶	SRBD	Multilevel surgery	2	2
Hay et al []⁷	Oropharynx SCC	Single level surgery	122	1
TORS – transoral robotic surgery; OSAS – obstructive sleep apnea syndrome; SRBD – sleep related breathing disorder; SCC – squamous cell carcinoma.

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A Rare Presentation of Recalcitrant Oropharyngeal Stenosis in a 54-Year-Old Male Patient Following Transoral Robotic Surgery for Obstructive Sleep Apnea

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