Virtual Symposium Program

Pre-Recorded Presentations on:

• Anatomy Of The Skull Base
  • Comparison between Far Lateral Approach, Far Medial Expanded Endonasal Approach and Contralateral Transmaxillary Corridor to the Jugular Tubercle – Cleiton Formentin, MD
  • Ethmoidal Width as a Predictor of the Size and Surgical Freedom of the Trans-Cribriform Corridor. – Zaid Aljuboori, MD
• Aneurysms
  • Skull base approaches for cerebrovascular disorders – M.R. Fasinella, MD
  • Standard Orbitozygomatic Craniotomy vs Mini Orbitozygomatic Craniotomy Via an Eyebrow Incision for Microsurgical Treatment of Anterior Communicating Artery Aneurysms – David R Peters, MD
• Cerebrospinal Fluid Leaks
  • Single-arm, open-label, multicenter study to evaluate the safety and performance of Dura Sealant Patch in reducing CSF leakage following elective cranial surgery; the ENCASE trial – Tristan P van Doormaal, MD, PhD
  • Simple Non-Watertight Closure for Keyhole Retrosigmoid Craniotomies – Is Less More? – Andrew K Wong, MD
  • Clinical Outcomes of Surgical and Pharmacological Treatment of Spontaneous Cerebrospinal Fluid leaks to the Temporal Bone – Shubham Patel, BS
• Clival Tumors/Chordoma/Chondroid Tumors
  • An institutional review of clinical outcomes for skull base chordoma: An analysis of 263 cases over 19 years – Nallammai Muthiah
  • Long-term outcomes of grade I–II skull base chondrosarcoma: an insight into the role of surgery and radiotherapy – Hirotaka Hasegawa, MD, PhD
  • Surgical Management of Clival Malignancies: Predictors of Quality of Life – Patrick J Hunt
  • Chondrosarcoma of the skull base: a single-institution 15-year review – Alyssa M Civantos
  • Metastatic chordoma is associated with significantly shorter progression free survival following resection – Zachary C Gersey, MD
• Complications Of Skull Base Surgery
  • Preoperative Bleeding Risk Factors in Patients with Morbid Obesity Undergoing Anterior Skull Base Surgery – Aksha Parray, BA
  • Complication Frequency and Timing in Patients with Morbid Obesity Undergoing Anterior Skull Base Surgery – Aksha Parray, BA
  • Risk Factors for Postoperative Intracranial Infections during Endoscopic Endonasal Skull Base Surgery and the Role of Antibiotic Prophylaxis – Daniel E Palmieri
  • Review of venous thromboembolic prophylaxis in Cushing syndrome patients undergoing endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery – Justin P McCormick, MD
  • Sepsis and Wound Complications in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome Undergoing Anterior Skull Base Surgery – Chris B Choi, BS
  • Prediction of Readmission and Complications in Pituitary Adenoma Resection via the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) Database – Michael Karsy, MD, PhD, MSc
  • Complications of Endoscopic Anterior Craniofacial Resections: A 10-Year Experience – Erin K Reilly, MD
  • Skull Base Complications and 30-Day Readmission: An Evaluation of the Elderly from the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) Database – Michael Karsy, MD, PhD, MSc
  • Intraoperative Protocol for the Management of Carotid Artery Injury During Endoscopic Endonasal Surgery – Zachary M Kassir, BA
  • Risk Factors for and Rate of Development of Venous Thromboembolism in Lateral Skull Base Surgery – Brian Anderson, DO
• Cost Utility Of Skull Base Treatments
  • Cost-Effectiveness of DOTATATE PET/MRI for Radiation Treatment Planning in Patients with Intermediate-Risk Meningioma. – Jose Rodriguez, MD
• Craniofacial Surgery
  • A Device to Quantify Orbital Compliance and Soft Tissue Restriction – Henry Bair
• Craniopharyngiomas
  • Malignant Craniopharyngioma: The Effect of Radiation Therapy on Malignant Transformation and Chemotherapy on Survival – Turki Elarjani
• Development Of Novel Technology
  • Signal To Noise Ratio Increases with Miniature Surface Coil Position as Demonstrated by Both Numerical Simulation and Experimental Validation – Sophie M Peeters, MD
  • Use of Stimulated Raman Histology for Rapid Intraoperative Diagnosis in Sinonasal Malignancy – Conall Fitzgerald
  • Artificial cerebrospinal fluid circulation in cadaver – Breakthrough in neuroendoscopy skill learning – Sanjeev Kolagi, MD
• Endoscopic Assisted And Keyhold Approaches
  • Keyhole Surgical Approaches for Skull Base and Other Intracranial Meningiomas: Technical Nuances and Clinical Outcomes in 177 Patients – Jai Thakur
  • Risk Factors and Outcomes of SPA Ligation for Treatment of Recurrent Epistaxis – Theodore D Klug, MD, MPH
  • Distal Arterial Decompression Of Trigeminal Nerve near Meckel’s Cave Improves Facial Pain Outcomes During Fully Endoscopic Microvascular Decompression – Rachel Blue, MD
• Endoscopic Transnasal Skull Base Surgery
  • Factors Associated with 30-Day Readmission after Endoscopic Endonasal Transphenoidal Resection of Sellar Lesions – Pawina Jiramongkolchai
  • Chondrosarcoma: meta-analysis of endoscopic endonasal surgical approach – Jesse D Lawrence, MD
  • An Institutional Evolution of Endoscopic Endonasal Odontoidectomy: from Occipito-cervical Fusion to Atlanto-Axial Fusion, to Partial Anterior Arch of C1 Resection, and Utilization of a Retropharyngeal Vascularized Flap – Hanna Algattas
  • Silent corticotroph pituitary adenomas: clinical characteristics, long term outcomes, and management of disease recurrence – Ben A Strickland, MD
  • Timing of surgical intervention in patients with pituitary apoplexy and cranial nerves deficits; single center experience – Fahad Alkherayf
• Head And Neck Tumors
  • Comparison of treatment outcome in patients with glomus jugular tumors after surgery and radiotherapy – Ali Kouhi
  • Diversity of affected genes and genetic variants among patients with malignant paragangliomas of the head and neck at a single-institution. – Colleen G Hochfelder, MD, MS
  • The Cranio-Orbitozygomatic Approach In The Management of Advanced Head and Neck Cancer – Roberto M. Soriano, MD
• Inflammatory And Infectious Skull Base Conditions
  • Treatment and Prognosis of Inflammatory Pseudotumor of the Skull Base – Sidney J Perkins, MSc
  • Factors Predicting Long Term Survival in Acute Invasive Fungal Sinusitis: – Glen D’Souza, MD
• Innovative Techniques, Technology, And Approaches To The Skull Base
  • Systematic Review of Intraoperative Indocyanine Green for Assessment of Flap Perfusion – Noah Shaikh, MD
  • Volumetric 3-dimensional analysis of the supraorbital versus pterional approach to intracranial structures – Assessment of the Volume of Surgical Freedom – Lena Mary Houlihan, MD, MCH
  • Perioperative Tranexamic Acid for ACTH-secreting Pituitary Adenomas: Technical Note and Preliminary Cohort Study – Christopher S Graffeo, MD, MS
• Intraoperative Neuromonitoring
  • The Clinical Utility of Neuromonitoring in Endoscopic Endonasal Pituitary Surgery – Annie Orr
• Lateral Skull Base Surgery
  • Management of Vestibular Dysfunction and Hearing Loss in Intralabyrinthine Schwannomas – Douglas J Totten
  • Transcanal transpromontorial approach for resection of tumors of the inner ear, internal auditory canal, and cerebellopontine angle: An evolution in technique – Daniel E Killeen, MD
  • Risk Factors Associated with Necessity for Intensive Care Utilization in Lateral Skull Base Surgery – Robert M Conway, DO
• Medical Management Of Skull Base Neoplasms
  • Managing Antiplatelets and Anticoagulants Following Craniotomy for Tumor Resection: A Survey of Board-Certified Neurosurgeons – Nimer Adeeb, MD
  • A comparison of overall survival between definitive local therapy versus systemic therapy in metastatic sinonasal malignancies – Aman Prasad, BS
  • Postoperative Opioid Use in Skull Base Craniotomies and Endoscopic Endonasal Surgery – Tamia Potter, BS
• Meningiomas
  • Posterior petrous face meningiomas presenting with Ménière’s-like syndrome: a case series and review of the literature – Ramin A Morshed, MD
  • Gross total resection of the petroclival meningioma in the era of radiosurgery : a multi-decade Institutional experience – Ben A Strickland, MD
  • MR-guided Laser Induced Thermotherapy (MRgLITT) as a feasible new treatment for skull base tumors – Jesse D Lawrence, MD
  • A Meta-analysis of Endoscopic Endonasal versus Supraorbital Craniotomy Approaches for Anterior Skull Base Meningiomas – Scott C Seaman, MD
  • Therapeutic Outcomes of Spheno-Orbital Meningiomas and Factors Influencing Recurrence Over a 32 Year Period – Ann Tran, MD
  • The effect of functional status, age, and medical comorbidities on the perioperative complication profile of skull base meningioma resection in elderly patients – Colin Przybylowski, MD
  • A Systematic Review of Transcranial versus Endoscopic Endonasal Approach for Suprasellar Meningiomas – Matthew H Snyder, BS
  • Safety and Efficacy of Pre-operative embolization of Meningioma – Manasa G Rao, BS
• Microvascular Decompression
  • Economic Outcomes of Patients Undergoing Surgical Intervention for Trigeminal Neuralgia: Analysis from a National Database – Ronan J Doherty
• Novel Techniques and Treatment
  • Sinusitis after Maxillectomy with Free Flap Reconstruction: Incidence and Clinical Approach – David K Lerner, MD
  • Intracranial Hypertension Secondary to Venous Outflow Obstruction – Edward J Hepworth, MD
  • Prevalence and Trends of Surgical Intervention for Trigeminal Neuralgia in the Inpatient Setting in the United States: Analyses from a National Database from 2002-2015 – Alexander Y Alexander
• Oncologic Outcomes
  • Oncologic Outcomes and Orbital Preservation in Endoscopic Endonasal Resection of Secondary Orbital Tumors – Katie Melder, MD
  • Predictors of distant recurrence in sinonasal/skull base cancer – Cristina Valero, MD, PhD
  • Outcomes in Surgical Management of Sinonasal / Skull Base Tumors – A Single Comprehensive Cancer Center Experience – Dauren Adilbay
• Orbital Tumors
  • Combined endonasal and orbital approach for resection of orbital apical tumors – Liza M Cohen, MD
• Pediatric Skull Base Surgery
  • Multi-institutional pediatric skull base chordoma experience – Uma S Ramaswamy, MD
  • Characteristics and Outcomes of Pediatric Lateral Skull Base Tumors: 15 years of experience – Elizabeth L Perkins, MD
  • Preoperative Risk Factors Associated with Intraoperative CSF Leaks in Endoscopic Endonasal Skull Base Surgery in Children – Hussein Jaffal, MD
• Pituitary Tumors
  • Treatment of Giant Pituitary Adenomas in the Era of Endoscopic Transsphenoidal Surgery: Strategy, Outcome and Complications – Stefan Wolfsberger, MD
  • Antibiotic use in endoscopic endonasal pituitary and skull base surgery – Morcos N Nakhla, MS
  • Can Private vs Government Insurance Predict Neurosurgical Outcomes? An Analysis of 218 Nonfunctional Pituitary Adenoma Resections Across Seven Years – Robert C Osorio, BS
  • Pseudocapsular Dissection Improves Residual, Recurrence Rates and Time to Recurrence in Cushing’s Disease Patients – Sophie Peeters
  • Ki-67 and Recurrence in Pituitary Adenomas: A Systematic Review – Colten P Wolf
  • Surgical Management of Prolactin Adenomas in women – Edward R Laws
  • Radiographic and Clinical Outcomes of Pituitary Apoplexy: Comparison of Conservative Management versus Early Surgical Intervention – Matthew Shepard, MD
  • Endocrine outcomes after endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery for non-functioning pituitary adenomas – Jenie H Hwang, MD
  • Evaluation of Early Post-Operative Day 1 Discharge After Endoscopic, Endonasal Pituitary Adenoma Resection – Si Y Yu, BA
  • Active Surveillance Versus Definitive Treatment for Pituitary Adenomas: A Population-Based and Propensity Score Analysis – Brandon M Lehrich, BS
  • Surgical Treatment of Pituitary Adenoma in Young versus Elderly Patients: A Population-Based Analysis – Brandon M Lehrich, BS
  • Gadolinium is not necessary for most post-operative pituitary adenoma imaging surveillance – Racheal Peterson, MD
• Quality Of Life Following Skull Base Surgery
  • Ketorolac Administration Reduces Opioid Usage in Postoperative Pituitary Adenoma Patients – Chhitij Tiwari
  • Predictors of Sinonasal Quality of Life Following Endoscopic Endonasal Transsphenoidal Pituitary Surgery in a Multicenter Prospective Trial – Christina E Sarris, MD
  • Trigeminal Schwannoma: A Retrospective Analysis of Endoscopic Endonasal Management, Treatment Outcomes, and Neuropathic Sequalae – Vijay A Patel, MD
  • Dizziness outcomes: a meta-analysis comparing Vestibular Schwannoma management strategies – Bryce T Munter, MSE
  • Socioeconomic Factors and Postoperative Endocrine Outcomes in Pituitary Adenoma Patients – Chhitij Tiwari
  • Quality-of-Life after endoscopic endonasal approach for anterior skull base meningioma – Matthew Z Sun, MD
  • Factors influencing postoperative opioid use following endoscopic skull base surgery. – Ryan Rimmer, MD
  • Quality-of-Life After Endoscopic Endonasal Approach for Anterior Skull Base Meningiomas – Matthew Sun, MD
• Sinonasal Neoplasms
  • Defining the Role of HPV in the Malignant Transformation of Sinonasal Inverted Papillomas: A Meta Analysis – Wesley H Stepp, MD, PhD
  • Determinants of patient refusal of post-operative radiation therapy in sinonasal squamous cell carcinoma – Aman Prasad, BS
• Skull Base Reconstruction
  • Skull Base Reconstruction with ALT Flap: Case Series – S. Hamad Sagheer
  • The Evolution of Skull Base Reconstruction After Endoscopic Transnasal Transsphenoidal Surgery at a Large Academic Institution – Sophie Peeters
  • Skull Base Repair and Extent of Pituitary Adenoma Removal – Chhitij Tiwari
  • Outcomes After Surgery For Sinonasal and Skull Base Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Single Institution Experience – Conall Fitzgerald
• Skull Base Surgery
  • Prognosis of distant metastatic sites in anterior skull base malignancies – Daniel O Kraft, BA
  • Prognosis of distant metastatic sites in anterior skull base malignancies – Neeraja Konuthula, MD
  • Multiportal retrograde endoscopy to enhance surgical target visualization: a pilot study. – Neeraja Konuthula, MD
• Stereotactic Radiosurgery
  • Temporal Trends, Regional Analysis and Characteristics of Utilization of Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Pituitary Tumors in the United States: Analyses from the National Cancer Database – Mohammed Ali Alvi, MBBS, MS
  • Pretreatment ADC predicts response to radiosurgery in solid vestibular schwannomas – Pranay Soni, MD
  • Application of Stereotactic Diffusion Tensor Tractography for Gamma Knife Radiosurgery of the Skull Base. – Cormac G Gavin, FRCSI, FRCSSN
  • Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) With or Without Surgical Resection for Pituitary Adenoma: Insights from the National Cancer Database – Andre E Boyke, MS
• Telemedicine
  • Telemedicine in a Tertiary Rhinology and Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery Practice: Utility, Impact, and Patient Satisfaction in the Post COVID-19 Era. – Matthew Du, BS
• Temporal Bone Tumors
  • Temporal Bone Resection in Advanced Periauricular Cutaneous Malignancy – Michael Schachtel, MD
• Training And Education
  • Randomized, Controlled Trial of a Novel Rodent-based Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Simulation System Using Advanced Biometric Analysis – Avital Perry, MD
• Transorbital Skull Base Surgery
  • Transorbital microscopic surgery: the most minimally invasive corridor to many intracranial structures – Lena Mary Houlihan, MD, MCH
• Vestibular Schwannomas
  • Hearing Loss and Volumetric Growth Rate in Observed Vestibular Schwannoma Patients – Zane Schnurman, MD, MBA
  • Functional outcomes and postoperative cerebral venous sinus thrombosis after translabyrinthine approach for acoustic neuroma resection: a radiographic demonstration of anatomic predictors – Christina Gerges, BS
  • Fractionated and single-fraction radiosurgery among vestibular schwannoma patients with serviceable hearing: comparison of treatment and hearing outcomes – Komal Naeem, MD
  • Medical Malpractice and Vestibular Schwannomas: A Nationwide Review – Edward R Bader, MBChB
  • Stereotactic radiosurgery as primary treatment in fast-growing vestibular schwannomas: a metanalysis – Leanne O Hamilton, MB, MCH, BAO, BScHons, MRCS, ENT

Topics to include:

• Adjuncts To Skull Base Reconstruction
  • Steroid-eluting stent bolster for CSF leak reconstruction during endoscopic endonasal repair – Feras Y Ackall, MD
  • Middle cranial fossa approach for repair of tegmen tympani with autologous bone paste for spontaneous otorrhea. Case report and review of the literature. – Adesh Tandon, MD
• Anatomy Of The Skull Base
  • Skull-base vascular anatomy of the infratemporal fossa pertinent to percutaneous access to the foramen ovale for treatment of trigeminal neuralgia: a comparison of cadaveric dissection and computed tomography analysis – Jesse D Lawrence, MD
  • Correlation Between the Clival Parameters and the Volume of Translabyrinthine Corridor in Adults. – Zaid Aljuboori, MD
  • Anatomical Step-by-Step Dissection of the Transcavernous Approach to the interpeduncular and prepontine cisterns: Surgical Anatomy of the Dorsoclival and Upper Basilar Area for Trainees – Edinson Najera, MD
  • Variability and Gender-Related Differences of the Bony Anatomy of the Endonasal Central Skullbase in Adults – Zaid Aljuboori, MD
  • Interactive Virtual Reality as an Anatomy Teaching Tool: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Trigeminal Nerve VR Model – Katherine L Garvey, MPH
  • Anatomical Study Quantifying the Relationship between the Arcuate Eminence and the Root of the Zygoma: Application to Skull Base Surgery – Joseph D Lockwood
  • Evaluation of Potential Nasoseptal Flap Size in Relationship to Flap Size Necessary for Frontal and Sphenoid Skull Base Reconstruction – Andrey Filimonov, MD, PharmD
  • Clival Length as a Predictor of the Size of the TransClival, Petrous Apex, and Translabyrinthine Corridors in Adults. – Zaid Aljuboori, MD
  • Endoscopic Endonasal Approach to the Ventral Midbrain For Brainstem Cavernous Malformations: An Anatomical and High Accuracy Fiber Tractography Study – Cleiton Formentin, MD
  • Gender-Related Differences of the Dimensions of the Transclival, Petrous Apex, and Translabyrinthine Corridors in Adults. – Zaid Aljuboori, MD
  • Relation Between the Internal Acoustic Canal and the Volume of Petrous Apex and Translabyrinthine Corridors in Adults. – Zaid Aljuboori, MD
  • Transorbital approach to the skull base: a construction of 3D models using anatomical dissections – Clara J Men, MD
  • A Cadaveric Study of Anatomical Relationships and Fascial Planes in Lateral Approaches to the Skull Base – Michael Schachtel, MD
  • Revisiting the structure of the cavernous sinus walls: An anatomical study of the dural layers. – Arseniy Pichugin, MD, PhD
  • Approach to the Orbital Surface of the Greater Wing of the Sphenoid through the Inferior Orbital Fissure – Yun-Kai Chan, MD
  • Endonasal Anterior Skullbase: Variability of the Bony Anatomy and Gender-Related Differences in Adults – Zaid Aljuboori, MD
  • Piriform height and The Clival Length as Predictors of the Size and Surgical Freedom of the TransClival Corridor. – Zaid Aljuboori, MD
  • Correlation Between the Petroclival Parameters and the Posterior Fossa Volume in Adults. – Zaid Aljuboori, MD
• Aneurysms
  • Novel Technique for Robotic-Assisted Protection of Intraoperative Aneurysm Rupture during Surgical Clipping – Keaton F Piper, MD
  • Predictors of functional outcome in patients with poor-grade spontaneous non-aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage – Sami Khairy, MD
  • Clinical presentation and treatment options for giant aneurysms: a case series in a low/middle-income setting – Stefan Koester, BS
  • Endoscopic Transnasal Transodontoid Treatment of a Ruptured Anterior Spinal Artery Aneurysm – Edwin S Kulubya, MD
  • ECA-RA-VA Bypass for Surgical Treatment of Radiculopathy caused by a Cervical Vertebral Artery Aneurysm – Edwin S Kulubya, MD
  • Radiation Exposure in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage – Samuel W Reed, MD
  • Lateral Supraorbital vs Pterional Approach for Clipping of Unruptured Anterior Circulation Aneurysms – Samuel J Cler, BS
• Biology Of Skull Base Neoplasms
  • Epidermoid Cyst in a Patient with Alagille Syndrome: Coincidence or Connection? Case Report and Literature Review – Akhil Surapaneni, BS
• Cavernous Sinus Tumors
  • Extramedullary Plasmacytoma of the Frontal Sinus: A Case Report – Joshua Harrison, MD
• Cerebrospinal Fluid Leaks
  • The Meniscus Sign: An Endoscopic Finding of Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea – Andrew L Iarocci
  • Socioeconomic Status on Diagnosing and Treating Spontaneous Cerebrospinal Fluid Leaks to the Temporal Bone – Shubham Patel, BS
  • Chronic cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea managed with endoscopic and open approaches – Tyler Scullen, MD
  • Giant Skull Base Encephalocele with Lateral Ventricle Herniation – Mauricio Parra-Ferro
• Chemotherapy And Immunotherapy
  • Management of Recurrent B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia to the Skull Base: Chemotherapy, Radiotherapy, and the Role for Adjunctive Surgical Resection – Ryan Holland
• Chiari Surgery
  • Chiari I Malformation Associated Syringomyelia – Daniel Kulinich, MS
• Clival Tumors/Chordoma/Chondroid Tumors
  • Endoscopic Resection of Clival Chordomas: A Single-Institution Case Series – Douglas Farquhar, MD, MPH
• Complications Of Skull Base Surgery
  • Cardiovascular, Pulmonary, and Renal Risk Factors in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome Undergoing Anterior Skull Base Surgery – Aksha Parray, BA
  • Renal Function and Volume Status in Patients with Morbid Obesity Undergoing Anterior Skull Base Surgery – Aksha Parray, BA
  • Effects of Chronic Steroid Therapy in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome Undergoing Anterior Skull Base Surgery – Aksha Parray, BA
  • Drastic enophthalmos after orbital roof removal for tumor: Revisiting the dogma for when to consider orbital roof reconstruction and avoidance of post-operative morbidity. – Andrew J Montoure, MD
  • Trigeminal neurotrophic nasal ulcers after resection of large cerebellopontine angle tumors: A case series – Keonho A Kong, MD
• COVID-19
  • Ventilated Upper Airway Endoscopic Endonasal Procedure Mask: Surgical Safety in the COVID-19 Era – Roberto M. M Soriano, MD
  • COVID-19 : A Novel Mask Design to Protect Healthcare Workers and Prevent Aerosolization from Patients. – Pascal Lavergne, MD, FRCSC
  • Microscope Tent for Skull Base Surgery During COVID-19 Pandemic – C Scott Brown, MD
  • Development and validation of a face-mounted, negative-pressure antechamber for endonasal surgery – Mark Lee, BS, BA
  • Development of a Low-cost Mask for Prevention of Aerosols Spreading in Endonasal Endoscopic Procedures to the Skull Base during the Covid-19 Pandemic – Edgar G Ordóñez-Rubiano, MD
  • Microscopic Transsphenoidal Approach for Macroadenoma in an asymptomatic COVID-19 patient: A Case Report – Dominique Higgins, MDPhD
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Significant Effect on Transsphenoidal Pituitary Resection Surgery (TSPR) at Inova Health System: An Institutional Experience – Luke Mugge, MD
  • Safety of transsphenoidal pituitary surgery during the Covid-19 pandemic and comparison to the pre-pandemic era. – Meriem Amarouche, MSc, FRCS, SN
• Cranial Nerve Functional Outcomes Following Skull Base Surgery
  • Endoscopic endonasal orbital decompression for carotid cavernous fistula – Noah Shaikh, MD
• Craniopharyngiomas
  • Resection of a Recurrent Craniopharyngioma in a Four-year-old Patient; An Endoscopic Endonasal Transplanum/Transtuberculum Approach with Nasoseptal Flap Reconstruction – Lindsey Ryan, MD
  • Descriptive Epidemiology of Craniopharyngiomas in the United States – Miguel A Recinos, BA
• Development Of Novel Technology
  • Application of a Novel Scanner-Assisted Carbon Dioxide Laser System (SmartXide2) for Neurosurgery – Roberto Colasanti, MD
  • Volumetric Models of Microsurgical and Endoscopic Anatomy of Internal Maxillary Artery Using 3-Dimensional Scanning Techniques – Atakan Orscelik
  • Semi-automated Method for Editing Surgical Videos – Lingga Adidharma, BS
  • Bi-Bole Bipolar Coagulation in the Resection of Challenging Intracranial Lesions: Analysis of Surgical Advantages – Jaafar Basma, MD
• Diseases Of The Craniocervical Junction
  • Surgical Approaches to the Cranio-Vertebral Junction Disorders: our experience – M. Capece, MD
• Endoscopic Assisted And Keyhold Approaches
  • Odontogenic Sinusitis: Predictors and Outcomes in Unilateral Sinusitis – Theodore D Klug, MD, MPH
  • Endoscopic mastoidectomy : A morphometric cadaveric study – Pascal Lavergne, MD, FRCSC
  • A Modified Sphenopalatine Artery Ligation Including Cautery of the Posterior Septal Artery – Theodore D Klug, MD, MPH
• Endoscopic Transnasal Skull Base Surgery
  • A pure-endoscopic endonasal resection of an esthesioneuroblastoma invading the anterior cranial fossa – G. Rene Alvarez Berastegui, MD, Neurosurgeon
  • Extended Endoscopic Endonasal Approaches for the Skull Base: The Rate of Complications – Ashwag Alqurashi, MD
  • Endoscopic endonasal approaches to the clivus with no violation of the nasopharynx: surgical anatomy and clinical illustration – Laura Salgado-Lopez, MD
  • Staged Repositioning in Endoscopic Endonasal Odontoidectomy Maximizes Decompression while Allowing Preservation of the C1 Anterior Arch: A Technical Note – Hanna Algattas
  • Contralateral Transmaxillary Approach for Resection of Chondrosarcoma of the Petrous Apex: Case Report – Jesse D Lawrence, MD
  • “Comparison of Anatomical Exposure during Petrosectomy Among Anterior Transpetrosal Versus Various Methods of Endoscopic Endonasal Approaches – An Experimental Study in Cadavers” – Thanapong Loymak, MD
  • Incidence of Post-Operative CSF Leak Using a Single Layer Closure with Acellular Dermal Allograft for Anterior Skull Base Defects – Pawina Jiramongkolchai
  • Avoidance of Maxillary Swing for Nasopharyngectomy via Combined Open Lateral and Endoscopic Approach – S. Hamad Sagheer
  • Expanded Endoscopic Endonasal Approach for Resection of Recurrent Glioblastoma – Andrew J Montoure, MD
  • Endoscopic endonasal fenestration of a sellar and suprasellar arachnoid cyst mimicking a Rathke’s cleft cyst: diagnostic and surgical considerations – Anthony J Schulien, BS
• Head And Neck Tumors
  • Acute Intratumoral Hemorrhage: A Rare Presentation of Melanotic Schwannoma – Giang-Kim Nguyen
  • Esthesioneuroblastoma as a Cause of Syndrome of Inappropriate Antidiuretic Hormone – Wynne Q Zhang, BS
  • Extramedullary Plasmacytoma Presenting as a Rapidly Growing Lateral Neck Mass: A Case Report – Cierra N Harper, BS
  • Paragangliomas of the Head and Neck, A Ten-Year Institutional Review – Stephen Green, MD
  • Intracranial Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma of the Cavernous Sinus with Unknown Primary Origin: Case Report – Akhil Surapaneni, BS
• Inflammatory And Infectious Skull Base Conditions
  • Chronic Invasive Fungal Rhinosinusitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis – Nrusheel Kattar
  • IgG4-Related Disease in the Skull Base and Calvarium: A Systematic Review and Presentation of Two Cases – Samuel J Cler, BS
• Innovative Techniques, Technology, And Approaches To The Skull Base
  • Exoscopic en bloc Near-Total Temporal Bone Resection: Feasibility Study and Operative Technique – Rima Rindler, MD
  • Robotic-Assisted Tubular Transoral Parapharyngeal Approach to the Ventral Cranio-Vertebral Junction – Jaafar Basma, MD
  • Venous Preservation: A Novel Technique for Vein of Labbe Preservation in a Sub-temporal Approach to a Midbrain Metastasis. – Emmanuel Omosor
  • Selecting the Skull Base Approach to the Antero-Lateral Midbrain and Pons: Quantitative Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Operative “Cones” to Cranial Nerve Origins – Jaafar Basma, MD
  • Computed Surgical Pre-Operative Planning for Tumors in the Internal Auditory Canal – Anand E Rajesh
  • Differentiation between optic nerve glioma vs meningioma using 68Ga-DOTOTATE PET/CT, two case reports – Eduardo Martinez del Campo, MD
  • Reversal of Diaphragma Sella Prolapse with Reverse Trendelenburg Enhances the Resection of Large Pituitary Adenomas – Maya Harary
  • Removal of a penetrating tree branch in the orbitofrontal region – a unique application of an orbitofrontal craniotomy through a supraciliary brow approach – Rupen Desai, MD
  • The Volume of Surgical Freedom; the surgeon’s most applicable anatomical measurement – Lena Mary Houlihan, MD, MCH
  • Endoscopic paramaxillary approach to the infratemporal fossa and pterygomaxillary space – Neeraja Konuthula, MD
• Intraoperative Imaging And Image Guidance
  • Novel Intraoperative Fast Anatomic Mapping as Teaching Adjunct in Endoscopic Sinus Surgery – Jennifer E Douglas, MD
• Intraoperative Neuromonitoring
  • Realtime Intraoperative cochlear nerve monitoring and Cochlear implantation during translabyrinthine vestibular schwannoma resection in cases of Neurofibromatosis type 2 – Matthew Shew
• Lateral Skull Base Surgery
  • Primary Intracanalicular Facial Nerve Malignant Neoplasm: A Case Report – Samuel H Smith, MD, MPH
  • Anatomical step-by-step dissection of complex skull base approaches for trainees: surgical anatomy of the middle fossa approaches including internal acoustic canal exposure and anterior petrosectomy – Laura Salgado-Lopez, MD
• Medical Management Of Skull Base Neoplasms
  • CHONDROSARCOMA OF THE SELLA TURCICA: CASE REPORT AND REVIEW – Darshna M Anigol, BA
• Meningiomas
  • Safety and Efficacy of Pre-operative Embolization of Meningioma in Patients with Pre-Operative Peritumoral Edema – Manasa G Rao, BS
  • Safety and Efficacy of Pre-operative Embolization of Meningioma with a Balloon Catheter – Manasa G Rao, BS
  • Eyebrow supraorbital keyhole craniotomy for olfactory groove meningiomas with endoscope assistance: Case series and systematic review of extent of resection, quantification of postoperative frontal lobe injury, anosmia and recurrence – Brett E Youngerman, MD
  • Meta-analysis of Adjuvant Radiotherapy for Intracranial Atypical and Malignant Meningiomas – Ansley Unterberger
  • Staged Surgery for resection of a giant petroclival meningioma: careful incisional planning and surgical nuances to overcome the challenge. – Kenneth De Los Reyes, MD
  • Absence of contrast enhancement in a petroclival meningioma: case report and systematic literature review – Adedamola Adepoju, MD, MS
• Microvascular Decompression
  • Trigeminal Neuralgia (TGN) secondary to Enlarged Suprameatal Tubercle (EST) – Baha’eddin A Muhsen, MD
  • Impact factors on the postoperative evolution of paroxysmal trigeminal neuralgia with persistent continuous pain. – Mauro A Segura-Lozano, MD, PhD
  • Outcomes of Microvascular Decompression for Trigeminal Neuralgia with Purely Venous Compression: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis – Tamia Potter, BS
  • Microvascular decompression for combined hyperactive dysfunction syndrome. A single center experience. – Aarón G Munguía-Rodríguez, PhD
• Minimal Requirements Of A Skull Base Team And/Or Program
  • Transition from the Traditional Microscopic to the Endoscopic Endonasal Approach for Resection Skull Base Lesions: Initial Experience, Limitations and Barriers in a Middle-Income Country – Edgar G Ordonez-Rubiano, MD
• Modern Evaluation Of Vision And Ocular Function
  • Case for quantitative evaluation – Steven A Newman, MD
• Oncologic Outcomes
  • Recurrent Multicompartment Chondrosarcoma Treated with Staged Multidisciplinary Resection and Adjuvant Proton Therapy: A Case Report – Tyler Scullen, MD
  • Primary and Metastatic Paraganglioma of the Cranial Vault – Lena Mary Houlihan, MD
• Orbital Tumors
  • Multiple Brown Tumors within the Cranium, in A Patient with Primary Hyperparathyroidism. A Case Report and Review of the Literature – Anas M Bardeesi, MD
  • A unique case of solitary supraorbital/intracranial Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis presenting primarily with ocular manifestations and a Review of Literature – Gohar Majeed, DO
• Pediatric Skull Base Surgery
  • Endoscopic assisted resection of nasopharyngeal choristoma with features of both congenital hairy polyp and compound odontoma arising from the skull base in a premature infant – Christopher Roberts, MD
• Pituitary Tumors
  • Socioeconomic Determinants of Length of Stay Following Transsphenoidal Pituitary Surgery: A Six-Year Review – Annie E Arrighi-Allisan, BA
  • Trends in Pituitary Adenoma Incidence: Population-based Study, 1989-2019 – Lucas P Carlstrom, MD, PhD
  • Endoscopic Endonasal Approach to Multilobular Giant Pituitary Adenoma with Cavernous Sinus Invasion and Petroclival Extension – Tural Rahimli, Dr
  • Professor Rathke’s Legacy to Neurosurgery: The Cyst, Its Diagnosis, Surgical Management, and Outcomes – Alaa S Montaser, MD, PhD
  • Patient engagement in the management of pituitary tumor; University of Ottawa experience – Fahad Alkherayf, MD, MSc
  • Pituitary Metastasis: The Moffitt Cancer Center Experience – Katherine Kunigelis, MD
  • Cavernous Sinus Invasion by Growth-Hormone Secreting Pituitary Adenomas – Camille K Milton, BS
  • Utilization of SIPAP Classification in prediction of pituitary adenoma recurrence; The Ottawa Hospital experience – Fahad Alkherayf
  • Endoscopic endonasal resection of a hypothalamic pilomyxoid astrocytoma: case report – Hussein M Abdallah
  • Modern Management of Pituitary Apoplexy via an Initially Conservative Surgical Paradigm – Kevin Peng
  • Optical Coherence Tomography in Pituitary Adenomas Serves as a Predictor for Visual Functionality Post-Resection – Abigail Funari, BS
• Sinonasal Neoplasms
  • Granular cell tumor of the sphenoid: a unique finding in a pediatric patient with sickle cell disease and Jeavons syndrome – Delaney Sheehan, BS
  • Sinonasal Sarcomatoid Carcinoma: A Case Report – Daljit Mann, MD
  • Sinonasal metastases of clear-cell renal cell carcinoma: two case reports and literature review – Matias Gomez, Otorhinolaryngologist
  • Sinonasal leiomyosarcoma: case report of a rare entity – Alexa M Franco, MD
  • Investigation into the use of volatile organic compounds to identify sinonasal inverted papilloma – Mark B Chaskes, MD, MBA
  • A case report of verrucous carcinoma of the paranasal sinuses – Clifton Woods, MD
  • Sino-nasal Aneurysmal Bone Cyst Invading the Frontal Skull Base: A Case Report – Ashwag Alqurashi, MD
  • First Case Report of a Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak as a Complication of Induction Chemotherapy in a Pregnant Patient with Sinonasal Undifferentiated Carcinoma – David C Mundy, BS
  • Nasal Inverting Papilloma extending to Bilateral Temporal Bones with Intracranial Extension: A Case Report and Literature Review – Christine Matthews, MD
  • Sinonasal Neuroendocrine Carcinoma: 15 Years of Experience at a Single Institution – Charles A Keilin
  • High-Grade Biphenotypic Sinonasal Sarcoma: A case report – Sukaina Hasnie, MD
• Skull Base Reconstruction
  • Lumber Drain Outcomes in Endonasal Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery – Jack Birkenbeuel, BS
  • Skull Base as a Team Sport: Role of the Neurosurgeon in Complex Head and Neck Cancer Surgery Requiring Vascularized Tissue Transfer Reconstruction – Varun S Shah
  • Management of Complicated Skull Base Osteoradionecrosis with a Buccal Fat Flap and Free Tissue Transfer – Ricardo Aulet, MD, MBA
  • Free Tissue Transfer in the Endoscopic Era: Evolving Role of the Top Tier of Skull Base Reconstruction – Satyan B Sreenath, MD
  • Bilateral Inferior Turbinate Flap for Repair of Skull Base Dehiscence after Proton Beam Radiotherapy for Clival Chordoma – Kayva L Crawford, MD
• Skull Base Surgery
  • Cerebral arterial vasospasm as a complication in an endoscopic transnasal approach for the resection of a WHO I Meningioma. A Case report – Andrés F Méndez, MD
  • Skull base chordoma with intradural component and compression to pons. – Tural Rahimli, MD
  • Longitudinal Trends in the Morbidity and Mortality of Skull Base Surgery by Anatomic Subsite – Nilan G Vaghjiani, BS
  • A Low Subfrontal Dural Opening For Anterior Skull Base Lesions – Samuel J Cler, BS
  • Intraoperative Differentiation of Normal Pituitary Gland from Adenoma Using Frozen Section and Touch Preparation Techniques – Nataly Raviv, MD
  • Steps of the Expanded Extreme Lateral Approach: A Systematic and Consequential Anatomical Description – Irakliy Abramov, MD, PhD
  • Endoscopic Transorbital Approach for Spheno – Orbital Meningiomas, first Colombian Case Reports. – Andrés F Méndez, MD
  • The Blood Supply of Intracavernous Cranial Nerves: An Anatomic Study and Its Implications for Transcranial and Endoscopic Cavernous Sinus Surgery – Edinson Najera, MD
  • Optic canal decompression for delayed vision loss in post traumatic optic neuropathy – Stefania B Diniz, MD
  • The transfrontal sinus approach to anterior fossa skull base tumors in the era of expanded endonasal endoscopy – Kevin A Cross, MD
  • Surgical Strategies for Incising the Tentorium in Skull Base Approaches – Michael G Kim
  • Skull Base Chondromyxoid Fibroma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature – Christopher Weeks, MD
• Stereotactic Radiosurgery
  • Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Hypothalamic Hamartomas: Systematic Review – Aditya M Kondajji, BS
  • Zapping Vestibular Schwannomas: The first vestibular schwannoma treated with the ZAP-X – Malika Bhargava, MD, MBA
  • Microsurgical Resection of Petroclival Meningiomas Treated with Stereotactic Radiosurgery to Address Persistent Post-Treatment Trigeminal Pain – Baha’eddin A. Muhsen, MD
• Temporal Bone Tumors
  • In vivo application and short-term outcomes of exoscope-assisted near-total temporal bone resection for malignancy – Rima Rindler, MD
  • Primary skull base melanoma causing jugular foramen syndrome – GRene Alvarez Berastegui, MD, Neurosurgeon
• Training And Education
  • Understandability and readability of online resources for skull base surgery patients – Drew Cutshaw
  • Pilot study in theoretical and hands-on experience and its contribution to learning of residents and young trainees in Neurosurgery. The importance of surgical anatomy laboratories as part of training – Luciano Leonel, PhD
  • Investigation of Surgical Precision and Efficiency in a Laboratory Model of Endoscopic Endonasal Dural Suturing: Is 3D Endoscopy Superior to 2D Endoscopy? – Ivanna Nebor, MD
  • Upright, Bright, Instruments in Sight: A Multimodal Training Module for Assisting in Endoscopic Endonasal Procedures for Junior Surgical Residents – Rima Rindler, MD
  • Micro-CT 3D Printed Temporal Bone Dissection: A Feasibility Study – Nathaniel Webb
• Training The Future Skull Base Surgeon
  • Anatomical step-by-step dissection of complex skull base approaches for trainees: surgical anatomy of the endoscopic endonasal approach to the orbit – Laura Salgado-Lopez, MD
  • Anatomical Step-by-step Endoscopic Endonasal Approach for Maxillary Nerve(V2) Rhizotomy and case series – Michael O’Brien, MD
• Transorbital Skull Base Surgery
  • First Case Report of Primary Central Nervous System Amyloidoma Involving Cranial Nerves V and VII – Esther Yesde Son, PhD
  • A Multiplanar Perspective of Endoscopic Approaches to the Infratemporal Fossa: A Cadaveric Study – Roberto M. M Soriano, MD
• Vascular Malformations/Tumors
  • Multidisciplinary Approach to Recalcitrant Dural AV Fistula – Joshua C Page, MD
  • Treatment of a pontine cavernoma with laser interstitial thermal therapy: case report – Jesse D Lawrence, MD
  • Cerebellopontine angle Glioblastoma: Unlikely presentation and limited treatment options – Danielle D Dang, MD
• Vestibular Schwannomas
  • A Case-Case Analysis of Intralabyrinthine versus Intracanalicular Vestibular Schwannomas – Kelli L Hicks, MD
  • Contralateral Hearing Loss After Vestibular Schwannoma Resection – S Hasnie, MD
  • Cochlear Ossification after Vestibular Schwannoma Resection via the Middle Cranial Fossa Approach – Scott B Shapiro, MD
  • Surgical Exposure of the Proximal Internal Auditory Canal: An Anatomosurgical Comparison of Retrosigmoid and Middle Fossa Transpetrosal Corridors – Michael G Kim
  • Pontocerebellar Angle Pathology: Analysis of the casuistry of a neurosurgical center in Chile – Pablo Peña, MD
  • Porus Acusticus Obstruction from a Densely Adherent Loop of AICA During Retrosigmoid Resection of a Vestibular Schwannoma – Jacob Kahane
  • Vision deterioration and hydrocephalus: rare presentations of vestibular schwannoma and evolution of management – Marte van Keulen, MD