Paris, Hands-on, European Diploma, English, December 2013-May 2014

 


Attingo dissection course

Joint European Diploma of Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery

paris

Endoscopic transnasal skull base surgery. Indications. Techniques. Limits. 

For each approach, indications will be discussed, as well as alternatives, either surgical or non surgical. Each procedure will be taught in detail in order to be performed by the student during dissection. Hints and Pitfalls will be pointed out. 

100 hours of lectures and training program.
Three seminars = 72 hrs
Dissection with lectures: two days (16 hrs):
2013 December 9-11, 2014 February 10-12, 2014 May 5-7
Lectures: one day (8 hrs)
A fellowship of two days in two different departments (32 hrs)

Paolo CASTELNUOVO, Philippe HERMAN, Piero NICOLAI

Registration

Course Fee: Residents 2.000€  / M.D. 3.000€

Information and Preregistration:
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By Mail to: Prof. P.Herman, Service ORL, Hopital Lariboisière, 2 rue Ambroise Parè, 75010 PARIS, FRANCE 

 



Faculty

D. Bresson, P. Castelnuovo, C. Debry, M. Fontanella, S. Froelich, B. George, P. Herman, R. Kania, D Locatelli, P. Nicolai, G. Tomei

Course program

FIRST SEMINAR – BASICS

  • Paranasal sinus and skull base anatomy. Vascular anatomy: ICA, vertebral artery, IMA.
  • Physiology of CSF and intracranial pressure - Physiopathology of meningoceles and encephaloceles. Lumbar drainage.
  • Imaging for skull base disease – cranial nerves
  • Interventional radiology
  • Radiotherapy and skull base. Gammaknife. Proton beam therapy.
  • Pituitary tumours biology
  • Meningiomas
  • Chondrosarcomas
  • Chordomas
  • Tumours of the sinonasal tract
  • Navigation
  • Anesthesia
  • Postoperative care
  • Technical prerequisite for surgery under endoscopic guidance. Equipment - instruments
  • Classification of endoscopic approaches to the ventral skull base

SECOND SESSION
Orbit and optic nerve

  • Anatomy of the orbit
  • The role of the ophthalmologist
  • Endoscopic orbital and trans-orbital surgery. Orbit and optic nerve decompression.

Cribriform plate - Transcribriform approach

  • Approach to and through the frontal sinus. Management of frontal sinus.
  • Transcribriform approach: Technique - Indications (meningioma, ethmoid adenocarcinoma, olfactory neuroblastoma) – Pitfalls – Complications.

Sellar and parasellar

  • Treatment strategies for pituitary tumours: Surgical indications. Endoscopic technique for lesions limited to the sella
  • Surgery for tumors with cavernous invasion: endoscopic cavernous sinus surgery

Planum

  • Transplanar approach.
  • Management of suprasellar pituitary adenomas
  • Management of planum meningiomas
  • Management of craniopharyngiomas

Clivus and transclival surgery

  • Endoscopic transnasal approach to the posterior fossa

THIRD SESSION
Lateral corridors

  • Medial maxillectomy – Trans maxillary approach to the infratemporal fossa – Transpterygoid approach
  • Medial approach to Meckel's cave, to the petro-clival junction and petrous apex
  • Approach to the nasopharynx and parapharyngeal space

Craniocervical junction

  • Decompression of the craniocervical junction

Adjunctive procedures

  • Complications in endoscopic skull base surgery. Management.
  • Vascular complications.
  • Techniques of dural plasty – Advanced reconstructive techniques with local, regional and free flaps

Endocrine complications

Strategy - case discussion

Management of chordomas

Management of chondrosarcomas

Management of meningiomas

Management of pituitary adenomas

Management of JNA

Management of bony lesions

Management of sinonasal tumours



Change in the Program may take place

2013-11-01 08:00:00
2014-05-30 20:00:00