title: Extended applications of endoscopic sinus surgery and its reference to cranial base and pituitary fossa.
abstract: Sinus surgery has the potential of allowing ENT surgeons to encroach the boundaries of our colleagues in ophthalmology and neurosurgery. The advent of nasal endoscope and lately powered instrumentation and computer-assisted navigational systems has avoided the use of the conventional and more radical approaches by the ENT surgeon for the treatment of inflammatory pathology or tumors of the orbit and skull base. As rhinologists have gained more experience in endoscopic surgery, more areas related to the orbit and the anterior skull base are accessible and surgery is safer.
authors.affiliation: Department of ENT and Head Neck Surgery, National University Malaysia Medical Center (UKMMC), Jalan Yaacob Latif, Bandar Tun Razak, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
authors.forename: Balwant Singh
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Gendeh
keywords: Endoscopic sinus surgery; Extended applications cranial base; Pituitary fossa; Powered instrumentation