Diversity of NeuroRhinology-Advanced Rhinology and Skull Base Surgery Cases

The fellow will actively participate in a wide array of surgical procedures.

Case numbers from previous years are as follows:
07/2018 – 6/30/2019: 308 and 263 total cases
07/2019 – 6/30/2020: 291 and 238 total cases
07/2020 – 06/30/2021: 272 and 285 total cases
07/2021 – 06/30/2022: 225 and 270 total cases
07/2022 – 06/30/2023: 251 and 370 total cases

The operative experience includes primary and revision endoscopic sinus surgery, endoscopic and open frontal sinus surgery, endoscopic septoplasty, orbital decompression, as well as endoscopic CSF leak and encephalocele repair. The fellow also participate in expanded endoscopic cases of midline and the anterior skull base, including surgery of the pituitary, suprasellar cistern, olfactory groove, clivus and infratemporal fossa. The fellow also have an opportunity to perform open approaches for tumor pathology of the skull base.

Case Numbers:

The following are cases performed by our fellows over the past 12 months. This does not represent the entirety of cases that would have been available for the fellows. At least approximately 10% of cases in each category were performed without fellows.

Case Category	Number of Cases
APPROACHES FOR SKULL BASE SURGERY Endoscopic trans-sphenoidal approach Endoscopic trans-planar approach Endoscopic trans-cribriform approach Endoscopic trans-clival approach	132
RESECTION OF SINONASAL TUMORS Benign tumor resection Endoscopic or external resection Malignant tumor resection Endoscopic or external resection	42
SKULL BASE RECONSTRUCTION CSF leak/Encephalocele Skull base reconstruction after resection of neuro-rhinologic tumors	36
ADVANCED RHINOLOGIC SURGERY Extended Frontal Approaches Osteoplastic Flap Approach Endoscopic DCR Endoscopic Orbital Decompression Endoscopic Intraorbital procedures Endoscopic medial maxillectomy Choanal atresia repair Endoscopic Mega-antrostomy Sphenoid nasalization Other	62
STANDARD ESS	176 (91 revision)

2021-2022 Case Log – Fellow #1

2021-2022 Case Log – Fellow #2