Fabio Roberti, MD Neurosurgeon

A unique collaboration to help patients with tumors in the base of the skull is under way at GW Hospital. Ameet Singh, MD, otolaryngologist and Assistant Professor of Surgery, and Fabio Roberti, MD, neurosurgeon and Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, are working together on minimally invasive surgical treatments for diseases of the nose, sinuses and brain.

Drs. Singh and Roberti, who serve as co-directors of the Pituitary and Endoscopic Skull-Base Surgery Program can remove many of these tumors through the natural opening of the patient's nose, thus avoiding facial or skull incisions in major surgery. First, Dr. Singh uses minimally invasive techniques to create a surgical pathway to the skull base using the endoscope. Then he and Dr. Roberti perform a delicate procedure to carefully extract the tumor and remove it through the nose.

Ameet Singh, MD Otolaryngologist

"The endoscope allows us to look around normal brain, blood vessels and nerves so that we can completely remove the tumor and save normal structures," Dr. Singh says. "This approach is so much easier on patients," he adds. "They experience fewer complications, have no scars and recover much faster."

"We often perform this new technique in patients with benign lesions, like cysts," Dr. Roberti says. These lesions include pituitary tumors, meningiomas (tumors arising from the lining of the brain) and spinal fluid leaks.

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