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TORS for OSA (obstructive sleep apnea) is just one more of the many published applications of robotic surgery in the otolaryngology literature. The first case of TORS in humans for cancer was described by Weinstein et al. (2006). The first TORS for OSA was carried out in May 2008 in Forlì by Vicini and Montevecchi. In less than 10 years this application has spread all over the world, and the diffusion may be traced by the increasing number of published papers in the literature.
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Vicini, C., Montevecchi, F., Hoff, P.T. (2016). Introduction. In: Vicini, C., Hoff, P., Montevecchi, F. (eds) TransOral Robotic Surgery for Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34040-1_1
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