Three full days with short lectures for introduction, master dissection and guided dissection by the participants
Topics
- Welcome, introduction and hand-outs, systematic approach to equipment and instruments
- Specific anatomy in advanced endonasal surgery
- Special Feature: Principles of shaver technology, advantages and risks, indications and contraindications, instructions for use
- Special Feature: Analysis of your specimen’s CT-findings with navigation system, set up of collision warning
- Systematic nasal endoscopy, septoplasty, turbinoplasty of the middle turbinate; Uncinectomy / infundibulotomy (a-p, p-a) and middle meatal antrostomy 1-3
- DCR
- Anatomy of anterior ethmoid and frontal recess, anterior ethmoidectomy, anterior ethmoidal artery, frontal sinus drainage I, IIa;
- Frontal sinus drainage type III, reconstruction with free mucosal flaps and pedicled flap
- Posterior ethmoidectomy, sphenoidotomy (transnasal / transethmoidal / transethmoidal-transnasal), rescue flap
- Prelacrimal approach to maxillary sinus
- Anatomy of pterygopalatine fossa; sphenopalatine artery, vidian nerve neurectomy, transpterygoidal extension of the sphenoidotomy
- Dissection of pituitary gland, transplanum-transsella approach
- Technique of transcribriform approach to the anterior skull base; video master nasoseptal flap, reverse flap
- Orbital decompression, optic nerve decompression
- Transpterygoid approach to Meckel’s Cave
- Nasopharyngectomy
- Clivus, internal carotid artery
* One whole specimen is available for two participants (one side at disposal for each participant). Dissection is done on a rotating basis.