ACNS Neurosurgery Webinar | Advanced Strategies in Recurrent Aneurysms & Complex Skull Base Meningiomas
Mr Kumar Abhinav delivered a webinar to the Asian Congress of Neurological surgeons on 18th April 2026 focussing on skull base approaches particularly minimally invasive corridors through the nose to remove complex pituitary tumours, chordomas, chondrosarcomas and meningiomas among other lesions.
Mr Abhinav starting a new position as Director, Bristol Complex Cranial Anatomy, Research and Innovation Centre, University of Bristol at University of Bristol
I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Director, Bristol Complex Cranial Anatomy, Research and Innovation Centre, University of Bristol at University of Bristol alongside my role as attending/ Consultant Neurosurgeon in Skull base (open and endoscopic), Complex pituitary and Cerebrovascular Neurosurgery.
The primary focus of the lab in conjunction with Professor Michelle Spear will be solid research work towards advancing the knowledge of clinically and surgically relevant neuroanatomy for optimisation of surgical corridor in patients with complex skull base pathologies and in keeping with the philosophy of giants in this field like Rhoton, my ex-mentor Professor Juan Fernandez-Miranda and Kassam among other luminaries.
Despite the challenges ahead, I hope that we will add to the relevant literature while demonstrating operative application using the data from the laboratory with special emphasis on treating patients with complex pathologies like functioning pituitary adenomas with cavernous sinus invasion skull base sarcomas craniopharyngiomas meningiomas and other lesions.
Mr Abhinav as an invited faculty presented in the plenary session at the Society of British Neurosurgery Meeting, Bristol on use of minimally invasive skull base approaches (endoscopic endonasal, transorbital) in complex paediatric (children) cases with craniopharyngioma, pituitary adenomas and other lesions. He highlighted his work and the progress made towards ensuring the best clinical and surgical outcomes for these patients over the last five years in Bristol.
Mr Abhinav served as an invited international faculty at the The Evandro de Oliveira Legacy Complex Cranial Course in Valencia Spain between June 28th to July 3rd, 2025.
Mr Abhinav served as an invited international faculty at the The Evandro de Oliveira Legacy Complex Cranial Course in Valencia Spain between June 28th to July 3rd, 2025. He worked alongside his ex mentor Professor Miranda (Stanford, USA) in educating the next generation of neurosurgeons and talked about Bristol and his experience with the use of endoscopic endonasal and other approaches in resection of skull base meningiomas, pituitary tumours and petroclival chondrosarcomas and skull base chordomas among other pathologies.
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
