Acute Taste Dysfunction in Oropharyngeal Cancer Patients after Transoral Robotic Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To compare taste changes after transoral robotic surgery (TORS) to taste changes in healthy controls.

Methods

Oropharyngeal cancer patients receiving TORS and healthy controls were recruited. Participants underwent posterolateral and whole-mouth psychophysical taste testing (identification, intensity, and hedonics) at baseline and at 2 weeks postoperatively (patients) or follow-up (controls). Surgeons reported suspension time and glossopharyngeal nerve injury (GNI) based on the identification and sacrifice of the nerve. A Clinical Global Impression (CGI) of taste symptoms was completed at each session ("My sense of taste bothers me" on a 5-point scale from Never [1] to Always [5]). A taste disorder (TD) was a CGI of 3 (Sometimes) or worse. Within-subject changes i

SUBMITTER: Tharakan T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10843268 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature