Amin Kassam
Amin Kassam, a neurosurgeon, and Ricardo L. Carrau and Carl Snyderman, otorhinolaryngologists from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, following the lead of Kaptain, et al., 1) and Maroon, 2) reported the use of the pure endonasal endoscopic technique for the treatment of various pathological conditions of the skull base, widening the concept of transsphenoidal surgery
1)
Kaptain GJ, Vincent DA, Sheehan JP, et al: Transsphenoidal
approaches for the extracapsular resection of midline suprasellar and anterior cranial base lesions. Neurosurgery 49:94–100,
2001
2)
Maroon JC: Skull base surgery: past, present, and future trends.
Neurosurg Focus 19(1):E1, 2005