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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

Number of Participants:
limited to 14

Program

TUESDAY, July 14, 2015
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 15, 2015
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 16, 2015
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 17, 2015
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