In-Office vs Operating Room Time to Treatment of Oropharyngeal Biopsies

Stephen F Politano; Emily Georgiadi; Alec Bonifer; Richard G Muller; David Ludlow

doi:10.1001/jamaoto.2024.2553

In-Office vs Operating Room Time to Treatment of Oropharyngeal Biopsies

JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2024 Dec 1;150(12):1121-1122. doi: 10.1001/jamaoto.2024.2553.

Authors

Stephen F Politano^{1

2}, Emily Georgiadi³, Alec Bonifer^{1

2}, Richard G Muller^{1

2}, David Ludlow^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio.
² Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio.
³ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio.

PMID: 39172484
PMCID: PMC11342216 (available on 2025-08-22)
DOI: 10.1001/jamaoto.2024.2553

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Plain language summary

This cohort study evaluates whether in-office biopsies significantly improve time to biopsy and time to treatment compared with operating room biopsies.