Abstract
Endoscopic skull base surgery is one of the striking advancement in the field of Otolaryngology and Neurosurgery. It significantly improved the surgical outcome of the lesion of anterior skull base with minimum mortality and morbidity. Hence, this method is now a day’s included as major surgical outfit in most of the high-grade institutions of the world. Here we are sharing our institutional experience of endoscopic skull base surgery of various lesions of the anterior skull base.
Keywords: Endoscopic, skull base, outcome.
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Corresponding Author
Singh Rakesh Kumar
Professor and Head, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sheikhpura, Patna, India Zip code: 800014
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DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v6i7.191
