UUHC Health Feed: Interdisciplinary Skull Base Surgery Team at University of Utah Health Helps Patients of All Ages Interdisciplinary Skull Base Surgery Team at University of Utah Health Helps Patients of All Ages Science Daily: Safer, swifter, smaller scar: New brain surgery approach targets difficult tumors at skull base Safer, swifter, smaller scar: New brain surgery approach targets difficult tumors at skull base Tumors arising in the base of the skull are among the most difficult to remove in neurosurgery. The current treatment method is to perform surgical removal by what is known as the microscopic anterior ... Dr.

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Kent Lam is an associate professor and chief of rhinology and endoscopic skull base surgery for Eastern Virginia Medical School’s Department of Otolaryngology Surgery at Old Dominion. The Anterior Skull Base Program provides state-of-the-art care for diseases of the paranasal sinuses and anterior skull base. Our physicians take a targeted, comprehensive approach to treatment of ... A medical team has developed a minimally invasive neurosurgical technique using an endoscope for the removal of tumors in the base of the skull.

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The results compare favorably with the conventional ... The surgical management of tumors involving the ventral skull base presents a profound challenge, traditionally requiring extensive external or transfacial approaches that carry significant cosmetic ...