Performed more than 100 operations to remove the

complex skull base tumors laparoscopically at King Saud University Medicine

A medical and surgical team in King Saud University Medical City consisting of the Neurosurgery Unit and the Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Unit has succeeded in performing complex cranial base surgeries with endoscopes through the nose to remove the skull base tumors (Expanded Endonasal Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery) that started in 2014 in The kingdom.

The head of the Department of Otolaryngology at the University Medical City, Dr. Saad Al-Saleh, explained that these operations are characterized by avoiding external wounds and opening the skull that are performed by traditional methods with the speed of recovery and exit after the operation with fewer complications, indicating that more than 100 operations have been performed to remove the complex skull base tumors with binoculars. During the past years, adding that this type of complex operations is one of the rare operations in the Middle East.

Dr. Al-Saleh emphasized that this number does not include the usual cases of pituitary tumors and the repair operations of the leakage of cerebrospinal fluid from the base of the skull with binoculars that are performed periodically in the Medical City of King Saud University and in other centers in the Kingdom and the Middle East.

For his part, the supervisor of the skull base surgery fellowship, Dr.Abdul Razzaq Ajlan, explained that the program has contributions to enriching neurosurgery fellowships in the ear, nose and throat in terms of clinical and research, and this is in line with the Kingdom''s vision 2030 in the preparation and development of human competencies and health services in this subspecialty.

The team consisted of an associate professor and the supervisor of the skull base surgery fellowship, Dr. Abdul Razzaq Ajlan, an associate professor and the head of the otolaryngology department Dr. Saad Al-Saleh, an assistant professor and the supervisor of the endoscopic sinus and skull base surgery fellowship, Dr. Ahmed Al-Roqi, and an assistant professor in the department of otolaryngology. Dr. Saud Al-Rumaih, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology, Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Rasheed, the team is working to perform complex skull base operations with binoculars and transferred from all over the Kingdom with high success rates, praise be to God.