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Microsurgery of the Skull Base

General Information

Objectives
Practising microsurgical procedures on specially prepared cadavers (one specimen for 2 participants)
3-D Video presentation of anatomy and surgical procedures
Discussion

Course Directors:
Th. Linder, Lucerne
U. Fisch, Zurich

Number of Participants:
limited to 14


Program

TUESDAY, July 16, 2013
08:00 Registration
(Anatomy Department University Zurich-Irchel, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich: see map)

Subtotal Petrosectomy Infratemporal Fossa Approach Type A
08:30 Introduction and 3D-Video
10:30 Dissection (Rt. side)
12:30 Lunch (provided)

Infratemporal Fossa Approach Type A (Continuation)
13:30 Discussion and 3D-Video
14:30 Dissection (Rt. side)
17:00 Discussion and surgical 3D-Video
18:30 End of the day

WEDNESDAY, July 17, 2013

Infratemporal Fossa Approach Type A (Continuation)
08:30 Introduction and 3D-Video
09:30 Anatomical Demonstration:
Infratemporal Fossa
09:45 Dissection (Rt. side)
12:30 Lunch (provided)

Infratemporal Fossa Approach Type B
13:30 Introduction 3D-Video
14:30 Dissection (Rt. side)
17:00 Discussion and surgical 3D-Video
18:30 End of the day

THURSDAY, July 18, 2013

Infratemporal Fossa Approach Type C
08:30 Introduction and 3D-Video
09:30 Anatomical Demonstration:
Pterygo-palatine Fossa and Cavernous Sinus (Prof. Ullrich)
09:45 Dissection (Rt. side, continuation)
11:30 Discussion and surgical 3D-Video
12:30 Lunch (provided)
13:30 Special Lecture:
Interventional Neuroradiology for Lateral Skull Base Tumors

Prof. A. Valavanis, Zurich
14:30
Infratemporal Fossa Approach
Types C and D

Introduction
15:30 Dissection (Rt. side, cont.)
17:30 Discussion and surgical 3D-Videos
18:30 End of the day
19:30
22:30 Course Dinner (provided)

Friday, July 19, 2013

Transtemporal Supralabyrinthine Approach (Middle Cranial Fossa)
08:30 Introduction and 3D-Video
10:00 Anatomical Demonstration:
Middle Cranial Fossa and Intrapetrosal Facial Nerve (Prof. Ullrich)
Dissection (Lt. side)
12:00 Lunch (provided)

Transotic Approach
14:00 Introduction and 3D-Video
14:30 Dissection (Lt. side)
17:00 Discussion and surgical 3D-Video
18:30 End of the Course

Registration
Online Registration on FIMF Website