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Endoscopic endonasal surgery is a minimally invasive technique used mainly in neurosurgery and otolaryngology. A neurosurgeon or an otolaryngologist, using an endoscope that is entered through the nose, fixes or removes brain defects or tumors in the anterior skull base .
These fellowships include pediatric neurosurgery, trauma/neurocritical care, functional and stereotactic surgery, surgical neuro-oncology, radiosurgery, neurovascular surgery, skull-base surgery, peripheral nerve and complex spinal surgery. [5] Fellowships typically span one to two years.
Antonio Bernardo is an Italian-American neurosurgeon and academic physician.He is a professor of Neurological Surgery and the Director of the Neurosurgical Innovations and Training Center for Skull Base and Microneurosurgery in the Department of Neurological Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College. [1]
He was the Director of the Institute for Minimally Invasive Skull Base and Pituitary Surgery Program [4] and the Director of the Epilepsy Research Laboratory [5] in The Department of Neurosurgery [6] investigating brain mapping, neurovascular coupling [7] and other novel techniques [8] for imaging and treating epilepsy.
Decompressive craniectomy (crani-+ -ectomy) is a neurosurgical procedure in which part of the skull is removed to allow a swelling or herniating brain room to expand without being squeezed. It is performed on victims of traumatic brain injury , stroke , Chiari malformation , and other conditions associated with raised intracranial pressure .
Abdulrauf completed a fellowship in skull base neurosurgery at the University of Arkansas School of Medicine in Little Rock, Arkansas, training under M. Gazi Yasargil, who developed brain bypass surgery in the 1960s in Switzerland and is considered the father of modern neurosurgery. [citation needed]
Due to his internationally recognized expertise in minimally invasive skull base surgery and neurooncology, Günther C. Feigl became an affiliate faculty member at the Houston Methodist Research Institute (HMRI) Neurosciences Research Program in March 2018 [11] and Adjunct Professor of Neurosurgery at the Houston Methodist Hospital (IAM) in ...
A basilar skull fracture is a break of a bone in the base of the skull. [1] Symptoms may include bruising behind the ears , bruising around the eyes , or blood behind the ear drum . [ 1 ] A cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak occurs in about 20% of cases and may result in fluid leaking from the nose or ear . [ 1 ]