Background Endoscopic skull‐base surgery (ESBS) is employed in the management of
diverse skull‐base pathologies. Paralleling the increased utilization of ESBS, the literature in …

Meningiomas represent the most common primary brain tumor and comprise 3 World Health
Organization (WHO) grades, the most frequent being WHO grade I (90%). Surgery is …

OBJECTIVE Planum sphenoidale (PS) and tuberculum sellae (TS) meningiomas cause
visual symptoms due to compression of the optic chiasm. The treatment of choice is surgical …

Object Following the introduction of the neurosurgical microscope, the outcomes in
suprasellar meningioma surgery were dramatically improved. More recently, the …

Background: Pneumocephalus (PNC) is the presence of air in the intracranial cavity. The
most frequent cause is trauma, but there are many other etiological factors, such as surgical …

OBJECTIVE Endoscopic skull base surgery (ESBS) is a relatively recent addition to the
neurosurgical armamentarium. As with many new approaches, there has been significant …

OBJECTIVE Endoscopic endonasal approaches (EEAs) to the skull base have evolved over
the last 20 years to become an essential component of a comprehensive skull base practice …

Background and objective Craniopharyngiomas are locally aggressive neuroepithelial
tumors infiltrating nearby critical neurovascular structures. The majority of published surgical …

Purpose Postoperative cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhoea (CSFR) remains a frequent
complication of endonasal approaches to pituitary and skull base tumours. Watertight skull …

OBJECTIVE Anterior skull base meningiomas are benign lesions that cause neurological
symptoms through mass effect on adjacent neurovascular structures. While traditional …