Endonasal Microsurgery of the Paranasal Sinuses
and the Anterior Skull Base

Course Program

18th – 20th of September, 2006, Zurich – Switzerland

Monday September 18th, 2006
 
08.30 Registration
09.00 Introduction and course objectives
09.15

Endoscopic Sinus and Skull Base Surgery – Introduction

  • A step by step practical guide: Who? When? Why? How?

  • Terminology and classification of surgical procedures
10.15

Endoscopic Technique
Bimanual and Videocontrolled
10.45

Coffee Break
11.15

Cadaver dissection
Introduction of Endoscopes and Instrumentation, Nasal endoscopy
11.45

Infundibulotomy, partial anterior ethmoidectomy
Introduction and surgical technique
12.30

Lunch
13.30

Cadaver dissection

Infundibulotomy, partial anterior ethmoidectomy
(right side of the cadaver specimen!)
14.30

Selected specimens
demonstrated by the Institute of Anatomy
15.00

Coffee Break
15.30

Surgical anatomy of the frontal recess
Fronto-ethmoidectomy – Introduction and surgical technique
16.30

Cadaver dissection

Fronto-ethmoidectomy
(right side of the cadaver specimen!)
17.30

Extended sinus surgery and beyond
 
Tuesday September 19th, 2006
 
08.30

Dacryocystorhinostomy
Introduction and surgical technique
09.15

Cadaver dissection

Dacryocystorhinostomy
(right side of the cadaver specimen!)
10.15

Coffee Break
10.45

Pathogenesis of sinusitis
11.15

Spheno-ethmoidectomy
Introduction and surgical technique
11.45

Cadaver dissection

  • Spheno-ethmoidectomy
    (right side of the cadaver specimen!)

  • Skullbase Part 1
12.30

Lunch – Discussion and Video Demonstration
13.30

Imaging of the paranasal sinuses
Preoperative "Check-List"
14.15

Pre- and postoperative management of chronic rhino-sinusitis
14.45

Cadaver dissection

Infundibulotomy, partial anterior ethmoidectomy,
fronto-ethmoidectomy, spheno-ethmoidectomy
(left side of the cadaver specimen!)
16.00

Selected specimens
demonstrated by the Institute of Anatomy
16.30

Coffee Break
16.45

Instruments in sinus and skull base surgery
17.15

Olfaction in endonasal sinus surgery
19.00

Course Dinner
 
Wednesday September 20th, 2006
 

08.30

Surgical anatomy of the frontal sinus
Fronto-ethmoidectomy with frontal sinus drainage procedure (FSDP)
Introduction and surgical technique

09.00

Navigation in Sinus and Skull Base Surgery

09.30

Cadaver dissection

Fronto-ethmoidectomy with frontal sinus drainage procedures
(right side of the cadaver specimen!)

10.30

Coffee Break

11.00

Facial pain, indication for surgery

11.45

Cadaver dissection

Infundibulotomy – , partial anterior ethmoidectomy – ,
fronto-ethmoidectomy – dacryocystorhinostomy continued
(left side of the cadaver specimen!)

12.30

Lunch – Discussion and Video Demonstration

13.30

Complications of endoscopic sinus surgery

14.00

Endonasal tumor surgery – Endonasal medial maxillectomy
 Introduction and surgical technique

14.35

Cadaver dissection

Endonasal management of the sphenopalatine artery, ligation of the ethmoidal arteries, lateral canthotomy and cantholysis for severe orbital hemathoma Endonasal medial maxillectomy, Anterior skull base surgery
15.30 Anatomy and surgery of the skull base – Part 2

16.00

Coffee Break

16.30

Imaging of the paranasal sinuses –
Value of CT and MRI in selected sinus diseases

17.00

“Hints” in endoscopic sinus surgery

18.00

Open discussion with the faculty, Adjourn

nach oben

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