Doctors in Jazan (southern Saudi Arabia) performed a five-hour-long complicated skull base surgery on a male patient.
ENT specialists at King Fahad Central Hospital 'repaired the skull base, brain meninges, and ear tissues of a patient who suffered from severe corrosion from the vestibular and semicircular canals down to the cochlear', Saudi Health said in a statement.
The medical team used a microscope and neuronavigational tool to repair the skull base through the ear opening and the inner ear bones.
The patient has been moved to the ICU for follow-up by the doctors and nursing team and is recovering, the statement added.
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