Klinik für Neurochirurgie
Skull Base and Pituitary Pathologies – Endoscopic , transorbital and keyhole approaches | 1st Münster Hands-on Course
Monday
| 08:00 | Welcome |
| 08:10 | State-of-the-Art Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery |
| 08:20 | Essentials of pre- and postoperative workout. Measuring success of surgery. - The Neurosurgeons perspective - The ENT perspective - The Endocrinology perspective - The Ophthalmologist perspective |
| 09:30 | Endonasal Anatomy |
| 09:45 | The transsphenoidal approach |
| 10:00 | Functional Pituitary Adenomas |
| 10:15 | Break |
| 10:30 | Hands-on Dissection |
| 13:00 – 13:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45 | Sellar imaging techniques (Zoom) |
| 14:00 | Giant pituitary Adenomas |
| 14:15 | Benign cystic lesions |
| 14:30 | Keynote lecture: Radiosurgery (Zoom) |
| 14:45 | Sagittal plane modules (Transplanum/Transtub.) |
| 15:00 | Craniopharyngiomas |
| 15:10 | Skull base reconstruction |
| 15:20 | Endonasal Dissection Steps |
| 15:30-15:45 | Break |
| 15:45-18:00 | Hands-on Dissection,Intradural inspection |
| 18:00 | Keynote lecture: Managing the cavernous sinus in endoscopic endonasal surgery (Zoom), Daniel M Prevedello USA |
| Social program |
Tuesday
| 07:45 | Prior day evaluation |
| Coronal plane and Posterior Fossa | |
| 08:00 | Introduction to the coronal plane |
| 08:15 | Surgical anatomy of the cavernous sinus/Meckel’s cave |
| 08:30 | Surgical technique and anatomy: Transclival and petroclival junction |
| 08:45 | Trigeminal schwannoma |
| 09:00 | Chordomas and Chondrosarcomas |
| 09:15 | Surgical technique and anatomy: The cranio-cervical junction |
| 09:45 | Break |
| 10:00 | Hands-on Dissection |
| 13:00 – 13:45h | Lunch |
| Transorbital Approach to the lateral skull base surgery | |
| 13:45 | The superior eyelid transorbital route to the skull base: Basic principles |
| 14:00 | The role of multiportal surgery in skull base tumors (Zoom) |
| 14:15 | TO Surgery: Korean Master Experience |
| 14:30 | Complications in orbital surgery (Zoom) |
| 14:45 | Break |
| 15:00 | Hands-on Dissection |
| 18:00 | Evolution of endonasal surgery and neuroendocrinology – lifelong learning (Zoom), Edward J Laws, USA |
| Social program |
Wednesday
| 07:45 | Prior day evaluation |
| Anterolateral cranial base | |
| 08:00 | Keyhole access to the anterior skull base: Concept |
| 08:15 | Mini-pterional |
| 08:30 | Eyebrow approaches Lateral eyebrow and supraorbital craniotomy Medial eyebrow (Kilian-Approach) |
| 09:00 | Skull base Meningiomas |
| 09:15 | Managing Skull Base Fractures & CSF leak |
| 09:30 | Keynote lecture: Pushing and respecting the boundaries in Skull Base Surgery (Zoom), Sebastien Froelich, France |
| 10:00 | Break |
| 10:15 | Hands-on Dissection |
| 13:00 – 13:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45 | Sinonasal malignancies |
| 14:00 | Complications in Skull Base Surgery: CSF leak, SSI and meningitis / ICA rupture / Endocrinological disorders |
| 14:15 | Bring your own cases – Case presented by trainees |
| 15:00 | Group picture & Farewell |
