| Minimally Invasive Skull Base Surgery |
The skull base is the portion of the skull which supports the brain. It forms the transition point for structures extending from the brain to the rest of the head and neck. The skull base is traversed and surrounded by important structures such as nerves, blood vessels, brain structures, muscles and glands. Lesions along the skullbase are difficult to reach and treat becomes of the complexity of the anatomy in this region.
Minimally invasive skullbase surgery uses approaches, techniques and tools to reach the skull base and brain either through naturally existing opening in the head or small windows created to reach targeted lesions. This approach ensures that patient can under go complex surgeries along the skullbase and recover with minimal morbidity.With the advances made in computer guided surgery, robotics and endoscopy, minimally invasive skull base surgery has allowed surgeons like Dr. Boahene to reach and treat complex tumors and lesions along the skull base.
Dr Boahene has a unique combination of expertise in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery, craniofacial surgery and head and neck surgery. Because of this unique combination of expertise, he is able to design novel approaches to treat skull base problems being mindfull of how the patient will look and function at the end of the case. Read about some of the novel skull base techniques pioneered or advanced by
Dr. Boahene and his colleagues.