Current status and prospect of endoscopic skull base surgery

Abstract

Neuroendoscopic techniques, with their good momentum of development and constantly emerging hot spots, have become one of the major aspects of minimally invasive neurosurgery. In recent years, in addition to the endoscopic transnasal surgery, endoscopic techniques have been gradually applied in transcranial surgery, which appears to be the most phenomenal progress in the field of endoscopic skull base surgery. With endoscopic transnasal surgery and endoscopic transcranial, skull base lesions can be approached from different views, making endoscopic skull base surgery a more thorough and sensible armoury for neurosurgeons.

Keywords

• brain diseases
• skull base
• neurosurgical procedures
• neuroendoscopes
• review