Oncologic and functional outcomes of open surgery in early supraglottic tumors: is it still a valid technique?
Open surgery is a more effective treatment modality in the early supraglottic tumors in terms of oncologic and functional outcomes. It should be continued to be use as an alternative method to the novel and expensive technologies including transoral robotic surgery or transoral laser surgery.
With regard to bone healing after MOWHTO, synthetic augmentation was not superior to no augmentation in terms of non-union rates after surgery. In fact, we registered a significantly higher rate of non-union after augmentation with synthetic bone graft.