OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To review our favorable experience with a minimally invasive transfrontal sinus approach to tumors of the subfrontal region. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective review in a tertiary care referral practice. METHODS Patients undergoing anterior skull base surgery by the senior author (Y.D.) were reviewed and transfrontal sinus approach patients selected for review. All cases of t...

Endonasal skull base surgery is growing exponentially as a subspecialty. In recent years, advances in endoscopic techniques and intraoperative navigation systems have allowed us to expand the indications of endoscopic skull base surgery. Major skull base centers worldwide are addressing larger and more complex lesions using endoscopic techniques. As a consequence, the skull base defects are mor...

Objective: To investigate the clinical characteristics and causes of the patients who received an emergency reoperation involving a craniotomy after neurosurgery for skull base tumors. Materials and methods: A retrospective analysis was performed with 14 patients who underwent an emergency reoperation involving a craniotomy after received skull base surgery in the Skull Base and Brainstem Divis...

OBJECTIVE To report the surgical treatment of severe swallowing disorders associated with skull base surgery resulting in unilateral pharyngolaryngeal paralysis in pediatric patients. DESIGN Retrospective case review. SETTING Tertiary referral center for pediatric otolaryngology. PATIENTS Five infants undergoing swallowing rehabilitation surgery for severe dysphagia and aspiration resulti...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to examine the surgical, oncologic, and developmental results of infants and children undergoing extirpation of skull base tumors. METHODS Sixty-seven children aged 0.5 to 18 years (mean, 11 years) who were operated on during a 6-year period made up the study cohort. Eighteen cases (27%) involved malignant tumors, and 49 (73%) involved benign tumors. The most commo...

Inflammatory pseudotumor (IPT) is a benign entity that may present as a solid mass mimicking a malignant neoplasm. Histologically, they are composed of varying proportions of myofibroblastic spindle cells, lymphocytes, and plasma cells. Skull base IPT is rare and usually occurs in adults with no sex predilection. The skull base IPT typically presents with headache, and/or cranial nerve palsy. T...