• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Upper Aerodigestive Tract Endoscopy Combining Rigid Laryngoscopy and Flexible Endoscopy
  • Contributor: Dubray-Vautrin, Antoine; Chappey, Christian; Taouachi, Rabah; Ghanem, Wahib; Choussy, Olivier
  • imprint: SAGE Publications, 2024
  • Published in: Surgical Innovation
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1177/15533506241238870
  • ISSN: 1553-3514; 1553-3506
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  • Description: <jats:p> Upper Aerodigestive Tract Endoscopy (UATE) is recommended for initial examination of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas. Reducing delay of initial examination must be a challenge to manage head and neck cancers. We hereby describe the technic combining UATE and flexible endoscopy in a unique general anesthesia with overview of hypopharyngeal, larygeal, tracheal, esophageal, nasopharyngeal sub sites in a unique procedure with system of magnificense and to perform percutaneous gastrostomy during the same time before initiation of therapy. </jats:p>