Ihsan Abbas Al-Baldawi
Neuroscience Hospital, Iraq
Biography
Dr. Ihsan Abbas Al-Baldawi born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1963. A graduate of collage of medicine/ University of Mosul/ Iraq M.B.Ch.B. in 1987. He worked as obligatory military services doctor 1988-1992, then became resident in otolaryngology from 1997 till 2004. Diploma in Otorhinolaryngology from Baghdad medical collage in 2006. -Fellow of the European Board of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck surgery in Vienna 2014. ENT surgeon in AL-Kindy teaching hospital Baghdad from 2006 till now. ENT-Skullbase surgeon in Neurosciences hospital Baghdad from 2009 till now. Member of the Arab Association of otorhinological surgeons’ society since 2011.
Abstract
Abstract: There are multiple approaches to reach the sellar region using microscope or endoscope, which are the old sublabial, with its post-operative morbidities, or the uni-nostril transseptal, which has a limited working field. Another technique is the direct transnasal, which is associated with tissue sacrifice, and lastly the bi-nostril (one side transseptal-other side transnasal), aiming to preserve one of the septal flaps.
Method: We have 27 case studies using a new technique in which we access the sphenoid endoscopicaly through the nasal septum from both nostrils under the mucoperichondrial-periosteal flap.
Conclusion: This new technique provides easy way of wide exposure to the