Conditions treated by EEA

The Expanded Endonasal Approach (EEA), also called endoscopic transnasal brain surgery, can be a minimally invasive surgical treatment option for patients with the following conditions:

• acromegaly
• adenocarcinoma
• adenoid cystic carcinoma
• adenoma (pituitary tumor)
• angiofibroma
• arachnoid cycst
• basilar invagination (Chiari malformation)
• brain tumor
• carotid stenosis
• cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak
• cerebral aneurysm
• cholesteatoma/cholesterol granuloma
• chondroma
• chondrosarcoma
• chordoma
• craniofacial fracture
• craniofacial malformation
• craniopharyngioma
• Cushing’s disease
• dermoid tumor
• epidermoid tumor
• esthesioneuroblastoma
• fibrous dysplasia
• glomus tumor (paraganglioma)
• hemangioma
• hemangiopericytoma
• invasive fungal sinusitis
• inverting papilloma
• macroadenoma
• meningioma
• meningocele
• microadenoma
• neurofibroma
• neurolemmoma (vestibular schwannoma)
• olfactory neuroblastoma
• optic nerve compression
• osteoma
• osteosarcoma
• paraganglioma (glomus tumor)
• pituitary apoplexy
• pituitary tumor
• Rathke cleft cyst
• rhabdomyosarcoma
• schwannoma
• sinus thrombosis
• sinus tumor
• squamous cell carcinoma
• vestibular schwannoma

To learn more about EEA at MINC, or to request a consultation,
go to Appointments & Referrals.

Additional Resources

• History of EEA at UPMC
• Biography,
  Amin Kassam, MD
• Biography,
  Carl Snyderman, MD

Expanded Endonasal
Approach Videos

• Expanded Endonasal Approach
• EEA Webcast
• Endonasal Brain Surgery 1
• Endonasal Brain Surgery 2