Eustachian tube dysfunction symptoms after endonasal skull base surgery

Abstract

ETD symptoms are present in 16% patients with underlying skull base pathology. Preoperative ETD symptoms improve following surgical treatment of skull base pathology. ETD symptoms may worsen in patients with central, posterior, or malignant skull base pathology.

Keywords: endoscopic minimally invasive surgery of the skull base; endoscopic skull base surgery; eustachian tube dysfunction; skull base.