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Table 4 Overall identification rate of unknown primary with TORS/TLM

From: The role of transoral robotic surgery, transoral laser microsurgery, and lingual tonsillectomy in the identification of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma of unknown primary origin: a systematic review

Author

Method

Proportion identified with TORS/TLM

Proportion identified with lingual tonsillectomy using TORS/TLM

Proportion identified with palatine tonsillectomy using TORS/TLM

Abuzeid et al. [26]

TORS

1/1 (100 %)

1/1 (100 %)

0/0 (0 %)a

Blanco et al. [28]

TORS

1/4 (25 %)

0/4 (0 %)

1/4 (25 %)

Durmus et al. [18]

TORS

17/22 (77 %)

4/14 (29 %)

13/17 (76 %)

Karni et al. [16]

TLM

17/18 (94 %)

11/18 (61 %)

6/18 (33 %)

Mehta et al. [19]

TORS

9/10 (90 %)

9/10 (90 %)

0/3 (0 %)b

Mourad et al. [27]

TORS

1/1 (100 %)

1/1 (100 %)

0/1 (0 %)

Nagel et al. [17]

TLM

31/36 (86 %)

13/19 (68 %)

-

Patel et al. [15]

TORS

34/47 (72 %)

21/41 (51 %)

14/27 (52 %)c

Total

TORS/TLM

111/139 (80 %)

60/108 (56 %)

34/70 (49 %)

  1. aPatient had childhood tonsillectomy
  2. bSeven of ten patients had childhood tonsillectomy
  3. cOne patient had synchronous lingual/palatine tonsil tumors