The Surgical Neuroanatomy Laboratory (SNL) has a major role in the preparation of the endoscopic endonasal skull base course organized four times a year at the University of Pittsburgh.
The SNL also organizes seminars every other Friday focused in training neurosurgery residents and fellows. The seminars consist on didactic and interactive 3D neuroanatomy lectures followed by neuroanatomical dissection in the lab.
Surgical Neuroanatomy Laboratory Seminars:
- The Cerebrum: gyri, sulci, fissures
- The White Matter: fiber dissection and HDFT
- Lateral Ventricles, 3rd Ventricle, and Choroidal Fissure - transcallosal and transcortical approaches
- Orbito-pterional, Orbito-zigomatic, and Zigomatico-temporal approaches
- The Anterior and Lateral Basal Cisterns: arteries, veins, cranial nerves - surgical routes: pterional, subtemporal, pretemporal
- Medial Temporal Lobe: anteromedial temporal lobectomy and selective amygdalohippocampectomy
- Middle fossa and Anterior Transpetrosal approach
- The Cerebellum, 4th Ventricle, and Telo-Velar approach
- The Posterior Basal Cisterns and Pineal Region: supracerebellar infratentorial and occipital interhemispheric approaches
- Retrosigmoid and presigmoid transtentorial approaches posterior transpetrosal retro and translabyrinthine approaches)
- Foramen Magnum and Far Lateral approach
- Endoscopic Endonasal Approach (EEA) -sellar/parasellar
- EEA-anterior skull base
- EEA-middle skull base/infratemporal fossa/transpterygoid
- EEA-posterior skull base