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Surgical Perspective · topic volume22 chapters · 8 parts

Resect, Rebuild, Restore

Laryngeal and Hypopharyngeal Cancer Surgery

From the anatomy as the surgeon sees it to the decision, the conservation operations, total laryngectomy and its variants, the hypopharynx, every way of covering the defect, salvage after chemoradiation, and the life the patient lives afterwards. Every operative frame comes from the team’s own recordings and opens the video at that moment; around them sit the essentials, drawings, algorithms, case challenges and self-assessment a trainee needs.

Author: Dr Bhushan Kathuria & Team
For: ENT and head and neck residents, fellows and surgeons
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Review edition · November 2026 · A4 · 190 pages
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How each chapter is arranged

  1. The decision: the case and the finding that chose the operation, with a QR code to the full recording.
  2. Learning objectives.
  3. Essentials: the background before you watch, referenced.
  4. From the operating record: numbered frames with the surgeon’s captions; tap a frame to open that moment of the video.
  5. Figures and algorithms where they explain the operation.
  6. Review: pearls, pitfalls, key points and questions to check yourself.

Each Part opens with a case challenge from the recordings. At the back: quick reference (complications, pre-operative checklist, operation note template, trainee milestones), viva questions, answers, glossary, references, a watch list of every recording and an index.

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Part I · Foundations

  1. Anatomy read from the field and the specimen
  2. Staging and the decision map
  3. Before and after the operation
  4. The airway first

Part II · Conserving the larynx

  1. Early cancer: cordectomy and partial laryngectomy
  2. Supracricoid laryngectomy with cricohyoidopexy
  3. Near-total laryngectomy

Part III · Total laryngectomy

  1. Total laryngectomy, step by step
  2. Variants: thyroid, retrograde, invasive thyroid cancer
  3. Incisions and flaps
  4. Closing the pharynx
  5. The tracheostome

Part IV · Hypopharynx

  1. Partial pharyngectomy through the side door
  2. How much pharynx is left?
  3. Post-cricoid cancer and the gastric pull-up

Part V · Covering the defect

  1. The defect atlas
  2. When the flap fails

Part VI · The neck

  1. The neck in laryngeal and hypopharyngeal cancer

Part VII · Salvage and complications

  1. Salvage after chemoradiation
  2. Fistula and the narrowed neopharynx

Part VIII · Life after

  1. Voice after laryngectomy
  2. Living with a stoma

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Access and publication details

Review edition, November 2026 · A4 reading layout, 190 pages. ISBN to be assigned.

Operative frames and captions come from the author’s own published recordings. The Essentials, drawings, algorithms, pitfalls, key points, questions and the case-challenge prompts are editorial text drawn from the cited literature and are under the author’s review; they are marked as such in the book. Prepared with AI assistance (Claude, Anthropic) for layout and editorial drafting.

All patients gave consent for the use of their images in teaching and publication; identifying details are removed. The book contains operative photographs and is intended for medical professionals and trainees.

Available for personal educational reading. Copyright © 2026 Bhushan Kathuria. Reproduction and redistribution require permission except as permitted by law. Dr Bhushan Kathuria & Team – serving the community in North India for 15 years · Reg. No. HN-017323, Haryana Medical Council.

This digital edition is intended for education and professional reference; it does not replace clinical judgement, supervised training or individual medical advice.