This unique 3 to 6-day dissection-intensive course focuses on mastering a range of transcranial approaches in neurosurgery, from basic to complex, including the pterional, supraorbital, subtemporal, retrosigmoid, suboccipital, orbitozygomatic, anterior transpetrosal, posterior transpetrosal, far lateral, jugular foramen, and combined approaches. All material is presented in an immersive 3D format. Participating surgeons work at 3-D interactive cadaver workstations, where they watch cadaveric dissections and review surgical anatomy—all in 3D—before and during their own dissection. The combination of the 3-D environment and the cadaveric hands-on dissection affords surgeons excellent preoperative training and rehearsal of commonly used neurosurgical approaches.
Course Objectives
The objective of this surgical course is to improve patient care. Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
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- Understand and expose sellar and perisellar anatomy and anterior circulation
- Identify orbital anatomy and orbitozygomatic osteotomies
- Describe cavernous sinus anatomy and surgical exposure
- Surgically access the basal cistern via opening of the sylvian fissure
- Complete a subtemporal approach and access the upper basilar region
- Navigate the anterior transpetrosal corridor to the internal auditory canal and cerebellopontine angle
- Identify temporal bone anatomy and perilabyrinthine transpetrosal surgical approaches
- Navigate the lateral cerebellopontine angle and its neurovascular complexes via the retrosigmoid corridor
- Identify quadrigeminal anatomy and understand surgical access to the pineal gland
- Explore the craniocervical junction via a far lateral approach
Target Audience
Neurosurgery Residents, Fellows, and Attendings
Dates
Basic Approaches: March 6–8 (Thursday through Saturday)
Advanced Approaches: March 10–12 (Monday through Wednesday)
Registration is available for Basics, Advanced, or Both.
Agenda
To view a sample agenda for our Basic Approaches course click here.
Questions?
Feel free to contact us at courses@skullbaseneurosurgery.org.
Hotel
Nearby hotels include the Gardens Suites Hotel by Affinia and the Graduate Hotel Roosevelt Island (for the Graduate Hotel, use promo code NEGWEILL for 15% off). For a full list of hotels, click here.
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