Endonasal Sinus and Skull Base Surgery

Course Program

June 14th – 16th, 2010
Zurich, Switzerland

> Course description

Monday June 14th, 2010
 
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

Immune dysfunction in refractory rhinosinusitis
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 and frontal sinus
Fronto-ethmoidectomy – Introduction and surgical technique
16.30

Cadaver dissection

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

The assisted, bimanual endoscopic technique
18.00 “5-key-points, personal insight”
19.00

Course Dinner

(Transportation is provided – we will depart directly after the course) Restaurant zur Höhe
Höhestrasse 73, 8702 Zollikon ZH
044 391 59 59
 
Tuesday June 15th, 2010
 
08.30

Dacryocystorhinostomy
Introduction and surgical technique
09.15

Cadaver dissection

Dacryocystorhinostomy
(right side of the cadaver specimen!)
10.15

Coffee Break
10.45

Pre-and postoperative management of chronic rhino-sinusitis
11.15

Spheno-ethmoidectomy
Introduction and surgical technique
11.45

Cadaver dissection

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

  • Anatomy and surgery of the skull base – Part 1
12.30

Lunch
13.30

Imaging of the paranasal sinuses
Preoperative "Check-List"
14.00

What is maximal medical management
What to do when it fails
14.30

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

Olfaction in endonasal sinus surgery
17.15

Endonasal tumour surgery
Achievements and perspectives
1745 “5-key-points, personal insight”
 
Wednesday June 16th, 2010
 

08.30

Extended frontal sinus surgery
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

13.30

“Hints” in endoscopic sinus surgery

13.50

Complications of endoscopic sinus surgery
14.10 Transorbital approaches to the skull base

14.30

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
15.10 Anatomy and surgery of the skull base – Part 2
15.40 Transnasal endoscopic skull base surgery

16.00

Coffee Break

16.30

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

17.00

Open discussion with the faculty
  Adjourn

nach oben

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