Program

 

DAY1

08:00 – 08:30       Overview on Endoscopic Transorbital Approaches to skull base and orbital contents

08:30-09.00           Anatomical considerations and endoscopic perspectives

09.00-09.30           How to get oriented?

Dissection

09:30 – 10:30        Palpebral Phase: Superior and inferior eyelid approach. Exposure of the orbital rim  

10:30-11:00           Exposure of the superior and inferior orbital fissures

11:00 – 11:30        Identification and exposure of temporalis muscle

11:30 – 12:00       Complete exposure of anterior and middle fossa dura (with identification of sagittal crest)

12:00 – 13:00       Lesser wing, optic canal region and ACP exposure

13:00 – 14.00       LUNCH

14:00 – 15:00       Meningo-orbital band management and CS interdural dissection (to MC)

15:00 – 15:30       ACP removal

15:30 – 16:00       Lecture: CLINICAL CASES

16:00 – 17:00       Exposure/removal of middle fossa floor (exposure of ITF)  

17:00 – 18:00       Anterior Petros-ectomy including Lateral orbital Rim Removal.

18:00-18:30         Considerations for clinical applications

DAY 2

08:00-08.30           Lecture: Intradural anatomy

08:30-09:00           Radiological considerations

Dissection

09:00-10:00           Intradural dissection (Silvian fissure, ACF, PCF, Suprasellar region)

10:30-10:30         Intraorbital dissection (Lateral compartment)

10:30-11:00         Lecture: Combined transnasal-transorbital approaches: when and how? Clinical cases

11:00-13:00           COMBINED approach, transnasal-transorbital to petro-clival regions

13:00-13:30           FINAL remarks