Athens Skull Base Hands-on Course 2026

Monday 25

May 2026

(Europe/Athens)

13 tracks

	3.1 Penfield Lounge	1.0 Sylvius Dissection Lab	6.0 Perneczky Lecture Room
			Welcome address Aristeidis PRASSAS, MD, PhD, Consultant Neurosurgeon, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece	Wellcome address Andreas DEMETRIADES, Consultant Neurosurgeon and Spinal Surgeon, Past President at European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS)	Introduction Moschos FRATZOGLOU, Immediate Past President of the Hellenic Neurosurgical Society, Course Director
			Keyhole concept – Supraorbital and Lateral Supraorbital approach Torstein R. MELING, MD, DPhil, FEBNS, IFAANS, Head of Department of Neurosurgery, National Hospital of Denmark, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Senior Advisor Besta NeuroSim Center, Department of Neurological Surgery Istituto Nazionale Neurologico "C.Besta" Milan, Italy, Past President of EANS
9:00 AM			FTOZ craniotomy Vasiliki XENAKI, MD, MSc, Neurosurgeon, Athens, Greece

			Cavernous sinus anatomy – Cavernous sinus surgery Moschos FRATZOGLOU, Immediate Past President of the Hellenic Neurosurgical Society, Course Director

10:00 AM	Coffee Break
		Hands - On Session 1 \| Supraorbital Approach, interfascial dissection, retrograde dissection of the temporalis muscle, FTOZ craniotomy, extradural anterior clinoidectomy, peeling of the lateral wall of the cavernous sinus


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2:00 PM
	Lunch Break
	Lunch Break
			Anterior petrosal approach Sebastien FROELICH, Professor and Chairman, Chairman of the WFNS Skull Base Committee, Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital Lariboisiere, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, University of Paris, France
3:00 PM			Transorbital approach Vasiliki XENAKI, MD, MSc, Neurosurgeon, Athens, Greece
	Coffee Break

		Hands - On Session 2 \| Anterior Petrosectomy - Transorbital approach
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Tuesday 26

May 2026

(Europe/Athens)

7 tracks

	3.1 Penfield Lounge	6.0 Perneczky Lecture Room
	Lunch Break
	Lunch Break
2:00 AM



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8:00 AM		Extended Retrosigmoid & Suprameatal approach
		Extended Retrosigmoid & Suprameatal approach
		Posterior petrosal approach Sebastien FROELICH, Professor and Chairman, Chairman of the WFNS Skull Base Committee, Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital Lariboisiere, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, University of Paris, France

9:00 AM		Hands - On Session 3 \| Retrosigmoid & Suprameatal Approach - Posterior Petrosectomy (navigated through the cerebellopontine angle)



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2:00 PM		Far lateral approach Olivier BOZINOV, MD Professor and Chairman Dep. of Neurosurgery Deputy Chief Medical Officer HOCH Health Ostschweiz, St. Gallen University of Zurich and Medical School St. Gallen, President of the Swiss Society of Neurosurgery Board Member Swiss Federation of Clinical Neurological Sciences Board Member HOCH Foundation
		Far lateral approach for vascular lesions Alexandros ANDREOU
	Hands - On Session 4 \| Far lateral approach (navigated through the cerebellopontine angle)

3:00 PM



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5:00 PM

Wednesday 27

May 2026

(Europe/Athens)

10 tracks

	3.1 Penfield Lounge	1.0 Sylvius Dissection Lab	6.0 Perneczky Lecture Room
8:00 AM			Endoscopic anatomy of the nasal – paranasal sinuses and skull base Christos Georgalas, MD PhD MRCS(Ed) DLO(Eng) FRCS(ORL-HNS) FEB (ORL-HNS) Hon Professor of Head and Neck Surgery , University of Nicosia Head, Department of Head, Neck, and Skull Base surgery, Hygeia Hospital, Athens Past President, Hellenic Society of Rhinology and Facial Plastic Surgery Lead Rhinology Group—European Board Examination in ORL-HNS
			Endoscopic endonasal approach to the sella
			Endoscopic endonasal approach to the suprasellar region (transplanum – transtuberculum) Mykola GUK, Prof. Mykola Guk, neurosurgeon, Chief of Endonasal Skull Base Department, Romodanov Institute of Neurosurgery (Kyiv, Ukraine)

9:00 AM		Hands - On Session 5 \| Endoscopic Transsphenoidal – Transethmoidal – Transclival Approach



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1:00 PM

	Lunch Break		Transpterygoid approach (anatomy and technique) Christos GEORGALAS, MD PhD MRCS(Ed) DLO(Eng) FRCS(ORL-HNS) FEB (ORL-HNS) Hon Professor of Head and Neck Surgery , University of Nicosia Head, Department of Head, Neck, and Skull Base surgery, Hygeia Hospital, Athens Past President, Hellenic Society of Rhinology and Facial Plastic Surgery Lead Rhinology Group—European Board Examination in ORL-HNS
	Lunch Break		Endoscopic vs. transcranial surgery for anterior skull base meningiomas Mykola GUK, Prof. Mykola Guk, neurosurgeon, Chief of Endonasal Skull Base Department, Romodanov Institute of Neurosurgery (Kyiv, Ukraine)
2:00 PM			Skull base reconstruction Christos GEORGALAS, MD, PhD, MRCS(Ed), DLO(Eng), FRCS(ORL-HNS), FEB (ORL-HNS) Hon, Professor of Head and Neck Surgery , University of Nicosia, Head, Department of Head, Neck, and Skull Base surgery, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Past President, Hellenic Society of Rhinology and Facial Plastic Surgery, Lead Rhinology Group—European Board Examination in ORL-HNS

	Coffee Break	Hands - On Session 6 \| Endoscopic Transpterygoid Approach

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