Drs. Theodore Schwartz and Vijay Anand Perform First 3D Surgery in India
In February 2011, Dr. Theodore Schwartz, Professor of Neurological Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College, and Dr. Vijay Anand, Clinical Professor of Otolaryngology Surgery, were invited to Dr. Balabhai Nanavati Hospital in Mumbai, India, to conduct a training workshop in advanced endoscopic techniques for Indian surgeons. During their stay, Dr. Schwartz and Anand performed the first-ever 3-D skull base surgery in India. The workshop, which focused on using new minimally invasive techniques for nasal, paranasal sinuses, and anterior skull base surgery, consisted of lectures and live surgical demonstrations. Drs. Schwartz and Anand performed surgery in an operating theater in front of 60 Indian surgeons on two patients: one was a woman who was losing her vision as a pituitary tumor compressed her optic nerve; the other was a teenage boy with a juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma growing into his skull base .
Dr. Theodore Schwartz (center) keeps his eye on the screen during endoscopic surgery for a pituitary tumor.
Dr. Theodore Schwartz reaches the pituitary tumor through the patientŐs nose, but his eyes (as well as those of Dr. Anand, at right) stay on the image on the monitor projected by the endoscope.
Dr. Vijay Anand (above, center) and the surgical team donned 3D glasses to perform a procedure using advanced three-dimensional imaging. The equipment was on loan from the manufacturer for the purposes of this workshop, so surgeons attending the demonstration canŐt use this new technique yet.
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