3rd Bristol Advanced Skull Base Dissection Course (24th till 27th February 2025)
Mr Abhinav directed the 3rd edition of this course in conjunction with Warren Bennett at the Vesalius Clinical Training Unit, Bristol. Over 4 days, via extensive skull base dissections and lectures and illustrative operative videos and cases from in-house and international faculty, he covered the advanced surgical approaches to the skull base in a 360 degree fashion with a special emphasis on expanded endoscopic endonasal (EEA) and transorbital approaches. Dr Abhinav in conjunction with national and international faculty drawn from the UK and USA covered topics pertinent to complex pituitary adenoma, meningiomas, craniopharyngiomas, chordoma, chondrosarcoma, schwanomma among other pathologies.
In particular the course highlighted the expansion of Bristol EEA and transorbital neurosurgical programme while continuing to use conventional open skull base approaches towards a building a contemporary world class skull base programme.
Course participation: The course was full with 20 participants (and observers!) drawn from an international pool including Pakistan, Kenya, Greece, Italy, Trinidad, Qatar and even as far as Ecuador in addition to UK participants. Of 19 respondents, 14 rated course as 10/10 with 4 rating as 9/10 and a total NPS score of 95.
Expanded Endoscopic Endonasal Transtuberculum Approach for Resection of Germ Cell Tumor
Paediatric (childhood) open and endoscopic skull base cases and tumours like craniopharyngiomas are always challenging to treat surgically. I recently published our operative video demonstrating application of principles of wide exposure and microsurgical skill in endoscopic endonasal resection (via nose) of a seemingly small but adherent lesion in a child with germ cell tumour to achieve optimal long term outcome for the patient.
Click here to Watch the Video.
We continue to use these open and endoscopic endonasal techniques to remove difficult skull base tumours in children and adults and achieve optimal clinical outcomes.
Bristol Expanded Endoscopic Endonasal Skull Base Dissection Course 24th-26th October 2022, Vesalius Training Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol
Mr Kumar Abhinav recently directed this course featuring local and international faculty from centres in the UK and USA. The course was aimed at practising neurosurgeons, ENT surgeons and senior trainees and featured participants from around the UK and overseas. The course over 3 days covered all high yield complex endoscopic approaches with coverage of contemporary open skull base approaches. The course was rated as 9 or 10 out of 10 by all of the participants. The course was supported by Stryker, Storz, Medtronic and Severn.
Expanded Endoscopic Endonasal Skull Base Webinar
Over 1 day between 11:30 to 17:00 GMT, the webinar will cover the full spectrum of expanded endoscopic endonasal approaches to the skull base.
There will be a focus on high yield surgical approaches and their relevance to specific disease processes including complex pituitary adenomas, tuberculum sella meningiomas, craniopharyngiomas, skull base sarcomas (chordomas and chondrosarcomas) and petroclival meningiomas among others.
Online Educational event: Advances in the Treatment of Acromegaly for Medical Professionals
News Date 21/03/2022
This webinar will be a free educational event; in particular discussing the advances in the treatment of acromegaly. It is mainly targeted at health professionals. The course is run by Dr Kumar Abhinav
