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V024: EXPANDED ENDOSCOPIC ENDONASAL TRANSPTERYGOID TRANSCLIVAL APPROACH WITH INTERDURAL PITUITARY HEMITRANSPOSITION FOR A HEAVILY CALCIFIED SKULL BASE CHONDROSARCOMA WITH ADHERENCE TO THE INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY
Evangelos Drosos, MD¹; Cristina Cernei, MBBS¹; Timothy Spencer, MD²; Michelle Spear, PhD³; Louise Melia, MD¹; Warren Bennett, MD⁴; Kumar Abhinav, MD¹; ¹Bristol Institute of Clinical Neurosciences, Department of Neurosurgery, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, UK; ²Department of Oncology, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK; ³School of Anatomy, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK; ⁴Department of Ear, Nose and Throat, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK

A 33-year-old woman presented with right VI nerve paresis with imaging revealing a calcified tumor in the petrous apex region arising from upper petroclival fissure with invasion of inferior compartment of the cavernous sinus and displacement of the internal carotid artery consistent with a chondrosarcoma. Endoscopic endonasal transpterygoid transclival approach with interdual pituitary hemitransposition was used to achieve gross total resection. Postoperatively there was worsening of the abducens nerve function and transient diabetes insipidus.

 

 

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