FUNCTIONAL & RADICAL ENDOSCOPIC SINUS SURGERY DISSECTION COURSE 2026
OCTOBER 21 to 23, 2026
21/10/2026From WEDNESDAY 21 to FRIDAY 23, OCTOBER 2026
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Attendees : ENTs - Surgeons wishing to specialize, Hospital and Private Practice, Clinic Heads, Assistants and Interns in training of English-speaking origin.
Level : All - Course language : English - Number of attendees : 12
CONDUCT OF TRAINING
⚠️ SUBJECT TO CHANGE ⚠️
DAY 1 : Anatomy Laboratory - University of Bordeaux
09:00 Registration
09:00 PLENARY: Surgical Anatomy Revisited: Application of New Embryological and Physiological Data
09:30 PLENARY: Nasal sinus and basicranial surgical anatomy: guidelines, limits and how to recognize a difficult endosinus procedure?
10:30 Break
10:50 PLENARY: Pre-operative installation and ergonomics of the workstation. The equipment to be used for sinus surgery: video column, endoscope, instrumentation, microdebridator, neuronavigation, balloon sinus.
12:00 PLENARY: Post-operative care, recommendations and normal course
12:30 Lunch on registration
13:30 - 16:30 DISSECTION ON ARTIFICIAL HEAD (2 participants/head)
16:30 - 17:00 Class photo
DAY 2: Anatomy Laboratory - University of Bordeaux
09:00 PLENARY: Maxillary sinus approaches: techniques, limits and indications
09:30 ANATOMICAL DISSECTION (1 participant/head)
Bilateral middle meatotomy – sphenopalatine artery search – Inferior meatotomy – Bilateral complete ethmoidectomy – bilateral sphenoidotomy
13:00 Lunch on registration
14:00 - 16:30 ANATOMICAL DISSECTION (1 participant/head)
Draf III – milling of sphenoid walls and identification of vasculo-nervous structures
DAY 3: CFXM Staff Room – Pellegrin University Hospital
08:30 LIVE SURGERIES
Interaction with the room and live discussion (middle meatotomy, balloon sinus, anterior ethmoidectomy, bilateral complete ethmoidectomy, sphenoidotomy, DCR...)
Each intervention is interspersed with clinical cases and surgical video
13:00 Lunch on site
14:30 PLENARY: Management of Nasal Polyposis: From Topical Corticosteroids to Biotherapy to Radical Ethmoidectomy
15:30 PLENARY: The Reverse Papilloma / Clinical Cases
16:15 PLENARY: Post-operative management of complications with clinical cases.
17:30 Attestations - End of the course