The University of Minnesota has a talented multidisciplinary team that performs routine and complex skull base surgeries to address:
Acoustic neuroma
Angiofibroma (JNA)
Basilar invagination
Chondrosarcoma
Chordoma
Craniopharyngioma
Cholesterol granuloma
Complex skull base reconstructions (e.g. trauma)
Cranial nerve schwannoma
Encephalocele / cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak / tegmen dehiscence
Epidermoid / dermoid / cholesteatoma
Endolymphatic sac tumor
Esthesioneuroblastoma (olfactory neuroblastoma)
Facial nerve tumor
Fibrous dysplasia
Glomus tumor (paraganglioma)
Hemangioblastoma
Hemangiopericytoma
Meningioma
Metastasis to the skull base
Neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2)
Odontoid rheumatoid pannus / odontoid synovial cyst
Orbital tumors
Pediatric skull base conditions
Pineal tumors
Pituitary disorders including adenoma, Cushing's disease, acromegaly
Nose and sinus tumors
Other carcinomas/sarcomas of the skull base (e.g. rhabdomyosarcoma, osteosarcoma, adenoid cystic carcinoma, SNUC, ITAC/adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma)
Trigeminal schwannoma
Vestibular schwannoma
Von Hippel Lindau syndrome
Other skull base conditions