National Midterm Conference of the SBSSI
Interim Skull Base Meeting 2025
Neurosurgery AIIMS Bhopal & Neuro Association Bhopal
Date : 13th, 14th & 15th June, 2025
Date : 13th, 14th & 15th June, 2025
| 8:00 - 8:15 am | Registration | |
| 8:15 - 8:30 am | Introduction and Orientation to the program | Adesh Shrivastava |
| Session 1 | Surgical anatomy 360 Degrees and approaches to ACF | |
| Moderator: | Deepak Bhangale, Delhi | |
| Charipersons: | Ashok Nayak Bhopal Easwer HV Trivandrum |
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| 8:30 - 10:15 am | 3D Surgical anatomy of Anterior Skull base | Abhida Shah, Mumbai Sukhdeep Jhawar, Ludhiana |
| 8:45 - 8:57 am | Principles of microsurgical management of anterior skullbase lesions (importance of positioning and planning of the flap) | Suresh Dugani, Hubly |
| 08:58 - 9:10 am | Comparing craniotomies and corridors to ACF | Anil sharma, Raipur |
| 09:11 - 09:23 am | Exoscopic Transcranial skullbase surgery compared to a microscope and endoscope | Vijay Parihar, Jabalpur |
| 09:24 - 09:36 am | Indications and Technical nuances of microscopic SOKHA surgery | Jayesh Sardhara, Mumbai |
| 09:37 - 09:49 am | Purely endoscopic supraorbital eyebrow approach | Waleed Azab, Kuwait |
| 09:50 - 10:15 am | PANEL DEBATE - transcranial vs transnasal choices | Deepak Bhangale, Delhi |
| Session 2 | Skull base and CSF pathologies | |
| Moderator: | Nitin Garg, Bhopal | |
| Charipersons: | Ashish Tandon, Jabalpur SS Dhandapani, Chandigarh Raghavan I, Indore |
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| 10:20 - 10:32 am | Endoscopic Vs Microscopic csf leak repairs Indications and techniques | Easwer HV, Trivandrum |
| 10:33 - 10:45 am | Innovations in anterior skullbase repair | Deepak Agrawal, Delhi |
| 10:46 - 10:58 am | Clinical approach to spontaneous CSF leaks | Subodh Raju, Hyderabad |
| 10:59 - 11:11 am | Skull base arachnoid cysts – surgical techniques to reduce recurrences | Rakesh Gupta, Indore |
| Session 3 | Sellar/Suprasellar lesions – Pituitary adenomas and craniopharyngiomas | |
| Moderator: | Khursheed Ansari, Mumbai | |
| Charipersons: | Sarla Menon, Bhopal Ayyadurai R, Hyderabad |
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| 11:13 - 11:25 am | Giant Pituitary adenomas – Surgical Strategies | Asheesh Tandon, Jabalpur |
| 11:25 - 11:39 am | Pituitary adenomas with Cavernous sinus invasion | Suresh Sankhla, Mumbai |
| 11:39: - 11:51 am | Craniopharyngioma surgery – endoscopic vs microscopic choices | C E Deopujari, Mumbai |
| 11:51 - 12:03 pm | Role of radiation in craniopharyngiomas | Aditya Gupta, Delhi |
| 12:04 - 12:16 pm | Trans-nasal surgery in paediatric patients When and how | S S Dhandapani, Chandigarh |
| 12:17 - 12:37 pm | CASE BASED PANEL DEBATE (2 Cases only) | Khursheed Ansari, Mumbai |
| Session 4 | ACF base Meningiomas | |
| Moderator: | Pragyan Sharma, Delhi | |
| Charipersons: | I D Chaurasia Bhopal Subhas Konar Bengaluru Rajesh Jain Raipur |
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| 12:40 - 12:52 pm | Olfactory Groove Meningiomas - surgical nuances to reduce morbidity | Sumit Sinha, Delhi |
| 12:53 - 01:05 pm | Tuberculum sellae Meningioma - endoscopic vs microscopic How to choose | Ayyadurai R, Hyderabad |
| 01:06 - 01:18 pm | Management of clinoidal meningiomas | Vernon Velho, Mumbai |
| 1:20 - 2:00 pm | Inauguration | |
| 2:00 - 2:30 pm | Lunch | |
| Session 5 | Skull base vascular neurosurgery | |
| Moderator: | Anant Mehrotra, Lucknow | |
| Charipersons: | Sandeep Sorte Bhopal Ashish Pathak Chandigarh RLS Sengar Gwalior |
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| 02:31 - 02:43 pm | Para-clinoid aneurysm - answers everyone wants to know but are hesitent to ask | Dr Sanjay Behari, Trivandrum |
| 02:44 - 02:56 pm | When Basilar top aneurysms require microsurgical clipping | Mathew Abraham, Trivandrum |
| 02:57 - 03:09 pm | Clinoidal drilling for PCOM aneurysms: Overkill or Prudence | Harsh Deora, Bengaluru |
| 03:10 - 03:22 pm | Managing vascular injuries associated with skull base approaches | Pragyan Sharma, Delhi |
| 03:23 - 03:40 pm | Case Based Panel Debate | Anant Mehrotra, Lucknow |
| Session 6 | Middle Cranial Fossa - Part 1 | |
| Moderator: | Prakash Nair, Trivandrum | |
| Charipersons: | Amit Gupta, Kanpur A K Chaurasia, Bhopal Rajneesh Kachchara, Indore |
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| 03:45 - 03:57 pm | 3D anatomy of the middle cranial fossa | Abhida Shah, Mumbai Sukhdeep Jhawar, Ludhiana |
| 03:58 - 04:10 pm | Anterior clinoid and the anterior cavernous sinus | Ashish Suri, Delhi |
| 04:11 - 04:23 pm | Choosing the correct approach for lesions in the middle cranial fossa | Raghavendran R Chennai |
| 04:24 - 04:36 pm | Anterior petrosectomy and access to posterior fossa via MCF | Ashish Patnaik, Bhubaneswar |
| Session 7 | Middle Cranial Fossa - Part 2 | |
| Moderator: | Subhas Konar, Bengaluru | |
| Charipersons: | Sunil Pandit, Bhopal Sudhir Pal, Bhopal Akshay Patil, Nagpur |
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| 04:37 - 04:49 pm | The transpterigoid approach to skullbase pathologies | Ramkrishna Easwaran, Tiruchirappalli |
| 04:50 - 05:02 pm | Dolencs approach to the cavernous sinus lesions | Kamlesh Bhaisora, Lucknow |
| 05:03 - 05:15 pm | Surgery for confined cavernous sinus lesions | Atul Goel, Mumbai |
| 05:16 - 05:28 pm | Surgical strategies for medial Sphenoid wing Meningiomas with ICA involvement | Rajneesh Kachchara, Indore |
| 05:29 - 05:41 pm | Mobilization of sphenoparietal sinus in middle cranial fossa approaches | Arun Srivastava, Lucknow |
| 05:42 - 06:00 pm | When radiosurgery takes over microsurgery in middle cranial fossa | Manjul Tripathi, Chandigarh |
| 06:01 - 06:13 pm | PANEL DEBATE - Diagnositc dilemma in Middle cranial fossa | Subhas Konar, Bengaluru |
| 7:00 pm onwards | Gala Dinner | |
