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 …

Chordoma is a rare bone cancer that is aggressive, locally invasive, and has a poor
prognosis. Chordomas are thought to arise from transformed remnants of notochord and …

Table 1-1. Category of evidence (2). Ia Evidence from meta-analysis of randomised
controlled trials Ib Evidence from at least one randomised controlled trial IIa Evidence from …

Chordoma is a low-grade notochordal tumor of the skull base, mobile spine and sacrum
which behaves malignantly and confers a poor prognosis despite indolent growth patterns …

Objective To assess long-term efficacy of the gasket seal, a method for watertight closure of
the cranial base using autologous fascia lata held in place by a rigid buttress, in a large case …

BACKGROUND: Gross total resection (GTR) of cranial base chordomas represents a
surgical challenge because of the location, invasiveness, and tumor extension. In the past …

Skull base chordomas account for less than 0.2% and chondrosarcomas for less than 0.15%
of all intracranial tumors. Although their clinical and imaging presentations are similar, they …

BACKGROUND: Injury to the internal carotid artery (ICA) during endoscopic endonasal skull
base surgery is a feared complication that is not well studied or reported. OBJECTIVE: To …

In previous decades, extensive and disfiguring transfacial and/or transcranial approaches
were used to reach the sellar and parasellar areas. However, these surgical routes were …

OBJECTIVE In the past decade, the role of the endoscopic endonasal approach (EEA) has
relevantly evolved for skull base tumors. In this study, the authors review their surgical …