Copenhagen Skull Base Course 2025

A hands-on course for all surgeons with an interest in skull base surgery

Program


Wednesday 17th

8.00-8.15
Registration

8.15-8.30
Welcome

8.30-9.15
Lecture
The endoscope in anterior skull base surgery
Transspenoidal endoscopic approach to sella and suprasellar region
Nicholas Thomas

9.15-12.00
Endoscopic hands on

12.00-12.45 Lunch


12.45-13.30
Lecture
Anterior approaches
Supraorbital approach – Pericranial flap – extended subfrontal access – en bloc cribrectomy – opening of sphenoid sinus
Jacob Springborg and Kåre Fugleholm

13.30-17.00
3D-demo/hands on

Thursday 18th

7.45-8.00
Coffee

8.00-8.45
Lecture
Presigmoid/translab. approach.
Mastoidectomy – exposure of labyrinth – translabyrinthine exposure of meatus.
Michael Gleeson

8.45-12.00
3D-demo/hands on

12.00-13.00
Lunch

13.00-13.20
Lecture
Orbito-zygomatic approach.
Indications and variations
Oliver Bozinov

13.20-13.45

Lecture
Orbito-zygomatic-approach.
Extradural clinoidectomy. Dissection of the cavernosus sinus.
Tiit Mathiesen

13.45-17.00
3D-demo/hands on

19.00

Course Dinner

Friday 19th

7.45-8.00

Coffee

8.00-8.45
Subtemporal approach. 
Lecture
Extradural apex petrosectomy –Meckels cave dissection – transtentorial access.
Lars Poulssgaard

8.45-12.00
3D-demo/hands on

12.00-13.00
Lunch

13.00-13.45   
Lecture
The transcondylar approach.
Suboccipital neck dissection – vertebral artery transposition- condylectomy – lower clival access.
Nicholas Thomas

13.45-17.00  
3D-demo/hands on and course evaluation

PROGRAM AS PDF:Copenhagen Skull Base Course 2025