Cranial base surgery, vestibular schwannoma (acoustic, acoustic neuroma)

Benign and malignant cranial base tumours

The malignancy of cranial base tumours is mostly defined by neuro-anatomical conditions. The most commonly encountered tumours are meningiomas and neuromas. Most of these tumours are acoustic neuromas, trigeminal neuromas and neuromas of the jugular foramen. Neuromas and neurofibromas caused by neurofibromatosa are less common. meningiomas of the posterial cranial fossa, the petrous bone, the clivus and the foramen magnum are categorised in accordance with their anatomical positions. The complex forms of tumour affecting the cranial base include petroclival, sphenoid bone and cavernous sinus meningiomas. Meningiomas of the anterior cranial fossa, such as meningiomas of the nasal apertures (olfactorial meningiomas), the planum sphenoidale, the tuberculum sellae and the lateral spenoid bone, are less complex, but no less complicated. All the above tumours have been classified as benign by the WHO. They respond well to microsurgery and can mostly be removed without loss of function. These types of tumour are rarely malignant. Tumours such as chordomas, chondromas, chondrosarcomas and epidermoid cysts are less frequently encountered cranial base tumours. Here, cranial base surgery plays an important role in the treatment therapy. Interdisciplinary cooperation is required in the case of paranasal carcinomas, esthesioneuroblastomas and interorbital tumours. Metastasis processes are also encountered in the area of the cranial base. New methods of depiction coupled with neuro-navigation and neuro-monitoring options are helping to optimise neurosurgical interventions.

Akustikusneurinom Schädelbasis (MRT)

Photo: Acoustic neuroma (before surgery)

Akustikusneurinom Schädelbasis (MRT) nach OP

Photo: Acoustic neuroma (after surgery)

Schaedelbasischirurgie_Trigeminus Neurinom

Photo: Trigeminal neuroma before removal

Trigeminus Neurinom nach Entfernung (nach OP)

Photo: Trigeminal neuroma after removal (after surgery)

Schädelbasischirurgie: Meningeom-Petroclinal

Photo: Meningioma petroclinal before surgery (MRI-picture)

Schädelbasischirurgie: Meningeom-Petroclinal nach OP

Photo: Meningioma petroclinal after surgery (MRI-picture)

Schädelbasischirurgie: Clivus-Chordom

Photo: Clivus chordoma before surgery (MRI-picture)

Schädelbasischirurgie: Clivus-Chordom post OP

Photo: Clivus chordoma after surgery (MRI-picture)

EXTRACT OF MY CORE EXPERTISE

Cranial base surgery, e.g. vestibular schwannoma
(acoustic neuroma)

Brain tumours

Spinal cord tumours

Vascular
neurosurgery

Paediatric
neurosurgery

Peripheral
neurosurgery

Neurovascular
compression syndrome,
pain management

Pain Management

Degenerative
spine conditions

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My practice is in the:

Hirslanden | Klinikzentren – Klinik St. Anna

Prof. Dr. med. Sepehrnia
Schädelbasischirurgische Klinik St. Anna
Hirslanden Klinik St. Anna
Ärztehaus Lützelmatt (Trakt L)
St. Anna-Strasse 32
CH-6006 Luzern

Dr. med. Phillip Jaszczuk
Phone +41 (0)79 955 29 81

Everything about the St. Anna Clinic you can find out here: Klinik St Anna

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