Skull Base Surgery

'Skull Base Surgery' represents genuinely multi-disciplinary collaborative approach to the standard procedures in skull base surgery. It emphasizes the basic operative steps of each approach and describes variations from the basic approach. Authors from the relevant specialties Neurosurgery, Otolaryngology, Maxillo-Facial Surgery and Plastic Surgery contribute to this new specialty of skull base surgery.

About the Author

Mr Ian Sabin is a Consultant Neurosurgeon based in London. He is the Medical Director of the London Gamma Knife Centre at the Wellington Hospital. Mr Sabin was appointed to his first post as a Consultant Neurosurgeon in 1992 at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, after training in Edinburgh and London (Queen Square) during which he completed research into monitoring during skull base surgery. He has completed additional specialist training in Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery in Pittsburgh, Stockholm, Marseille and for Cyber Knife radiosurgery in California. HIs main surgical interest is skull base surgery, using a combination of open surgery and radiosurgery where appropriate. He was the neurosurgical tutor to the Royal College of Surgeons of England for 10 years, a member of the Court of Examiners and a member of the Specialist Advisory Committee for neurosurgery. After 38 years working in the NHS, he now works full-time in London's largest private hospital, The Wellington.