Dr. Ankit Mahuvakar

Expertise Dr Ankit is a Consultant - Surgical Oncology at HCG Cancer Centre, Mumbai.His primary interest is in head neck cancer surgery, including thyroid, salivary glands, oral cavity, laryngeal and pharyngeal cancers. Dr Ankit has special expertise is in endoscopic nasal and sinus malignancy surgeries, pituitary and other skull base surgery, open anterior skull base surgeries and lateral skull base surgery, which includes tumours of the auditory canal. His secondary interest lies in transoral laser surgery of the larynx and robotic transoral surgery. Training and Certifications He has completed a two-year fellowship in skull base surgery from Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai. He has done a short observership for skull base surgery from Pittsburg centre, PA, USA. Publications Incidence, predictors and impact of positive bony margins in surgically treated T4 stage cancers of the oral cavity. Oral Oncol. 2019 Mar;90:8-12. Transnasal Endoscopic Resection of the Intraconal Metastases From Renal Cell Carcinoma: a Case Report and Review of Literature. Indian J Surg Oncol. 2020 Sep;11(Suppl 2):318-322. Intraoperative frozen section for detection of occult metastasis in clinically N0 neck does not improve outcome in oral cavity carcinomas. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2019 Aug;276(8):2325-2330. Needle(s) in the Haystack-Synchronous Multifocal Tumour-Induced Osteomalacia. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2016 Feb;101(2):390-3.