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Clinical trialNCT01187160CompletedInterventional

Transoral Robotic Surgery (TORS) for Sleep Apnea

SponsorUniversity of PennsylvaniaEnrollment154Obstructive Sleep Apnea
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Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

The purpose of this study is to assess if the da Vinci® Robotic Surgical System (Intuitive Surgical, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA) allows for "adequate exposure" for transoral resection of hypertrophic lingual tonsils in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.
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Investigators

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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States
  • University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start
31 Oct 2009
Primary completion
31 Oct 2014
Completion
30 Nov 2014
Last update posted
22 Aug 2016
Registered enrollment
154
Registry id
NCT01187160
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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.