tumors at King Saud University Medical Center
A medical-surgical team at King Saud University Medical City, consisting of the Neurosurgery Unit and the Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Unit, succeeded in performing complex endoscopic skull base surgeries through the nose to remove skull base tumors (Expanded Endonasal Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery), which was launched in 2014 in The kingdom.
Head of the Ear, Nose and Throat Department at the University Medical City, Dr. Saad Al-Saleh, explained that these operations are characterized by avoiding external wounds and opening the skull, which are performed by traditional methods with the speed of recovery and exit after the operation with fewer complications, noting that more than 100 operations have been performed to remove complex skull base tumors by endoscopy. During the past years, he added that this type of complex level operations are considered rare in the Middle East.
Dr. Al-Saleh confirmed that this number does not include the usual cases of pituitary gland tumors and the endoscopic repair operations of cerebrospinal fluid leakage from the base of the skull, which are carried out 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 fellowships in neurosurgery, ear, nose and throat, from a clinical and research point of view, and this is in line with the Kingdom’s vision 2030 in preparing and developing human competencies and health services in this delicate specialty.
The team consisted of Associate Professor and Supervisor of the Skull Base Surgery Fellowship, Dr. Abdul Razzaq Ajlan, Associate Professor and Head of the Otolaryngology Department, Dr. Saad Al-Saleh, Assistant Professor and Supervisor of the Endoscopic Sinus and Skull Base Surgery Fellowship, Dr. Ahmed Al Roqi, and Assistant Professor in the Otolaryngology Department Dr. Saud Al-Rumaih, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology, Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Rasheed, and the team is working to perform complex skull base operations with endoscopes and transformers from all over the Kingdom with high success rates, praise be to God.
