The atlas offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of frontal sinus surgery. In recent years there have been great advances in endoscopic nasosinusal surgery but they have been particularly prominent in frontal sinus surgery.
The book provides complete instructions for a gradual learning of the different surgical techniques and includes surgical pearls. It is enriched with videos presenting real-time guidance for frontal sinus endoscopic procedures.
The book will meet the needs of both trainees and more experienced practitioners, and will enable them to make steady progress in endoscopic surgery and to adopt a more complete and safe approach to the frontal sinus. It will be of interest also for ophthalmologists, maxillofacial surgeons and neurosurgeons.
David Lobo is currently Director of the endoscopic sinus surgery course at the Hospital Virtual Valdecilla, Santander, Spain. He is a Member of the Academic Commission, a Coordinator and a Professor of the Own Master's Degree in Advanced Rhinology and Anterior Skull Base of the International University of Andalusia. He received his medical degree from the University Autonoma of Madrid, Spain, and his doctoral thesis was awarded by the Spanish Society of Otolaryngology and Facial Cervical Pathology (SEORL). He trained at the Hospital Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, and completed his training at the Leighton Hospital, UK, and at the Emory University in Atlanta, USA. He completed a Head and Neck and Skull Base fellowship at the Skull Base Unit, Hospital Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain. He delivered many lectures at national and international courses and congresses. He authored a book on Surgical Ergonomics, and several book chapters and articles in national and international journals of Otolaryngology. He has led as senior researcher many competitively funded research projects in Madrid and Santander. He led a funded research project on sinus surgery ergonomics, and patented a system to improve ergonomics during endoscopic skull base surgery. He is currently a member of the Nanomedicine group of the IDIVAL Health Research Institute. His main research areas are endoscopic sinus surgery, sensorineural hearing loss, and surgical ergonomics.
Jaime Viera Artiles is a fellowship-trained rhinologist and skull base surgeon, with a degree obtained at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He also co-directs a sinus surgery course with Dr. Lobo and is an instructor in a neuroendoscopic course at the University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain. He gives yearly lectures about frontal sinus surgery at the national Spanish meeting and is the first author of several international publications in the rhinology field. He is a member of a surgical innovation research group in Cantabria (IDIVAL) and leads funded research projects on sinus surgery innovation. At the moment, he has patented several devices related to spatial orientation in endoscopic sinus surgery and COVID-19 safety. He is also part of the junior board of the European Rhinology Society.
Javier Ospina is currently leading research projects in the field of rhinology and skull base surgery, at the Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá and the National Cancer Institute, Bogotá, Colombia. He completed his Clinical/ Surgical Fellowship – Rhinology and Skull Base Surgery at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is an International member of the North American Skull Base Society (NASBS). He has a great experience in the management of complex oncologic and skull base pathologies at the National Cancer Institute, Bogotá, Colombia. He co-authored many papers and chapters on otolaryngology.
