Skull base tumor care at Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic's skull base tumors specialty group Skull Base Tumors Specialty Group in the Brain Tumor Program offers experts who are pioneering new treatment and diagnostic options for skull base tumors.
Mayo Clinic's Department of Otolaryngology — Head and Neck Surgery also includes a Comprehensive Skull Base Clinic at the Rochester campus in Minnesota. At the Comprehensive Skull Base Clinic, doctors use the latest technology and techniques to treat tumors and other conditions of the skull base.
Your Mayo Clinic care team
Your treatment team for skull base tumors may include a neurosurgeon, an otolaryngological surgeon, a radiation oncologist, a neuro-oncologist and other experts. Together they work with you to develop an individualized treatment plan. Test results are reviewed by a large, multidisciplinary tumor board of experts to discuss the optimum plan of care. You receive comprehensive care for the diagnosis and treatment of your condition, with access to in-depth counseling, unbiased review of all available treatment options, follow-up care and rehabilitation.
Advanced diagnosis and treatment
Mayo Clinic experts combine several sophisticated techniques to provide an advanced approach to endoscopic skull base surgery. These innovations, available at all three Mayo Clinic campuses, enhance the precision of complex skull base surgeries.
These surgical innovations are used to treat several types of skull base tumors, including pituitary tumors, meningiomas and clival tumors. These techniques include:
- Image guided and intraoperative CT.
- 3D endoscopy.
- Simulations that combine endoscopic surgery and proton beam therapy.
Mayo Clinic experts also can create holographic images and 3D models of the tumor prior to surgery, which provides improved presurgical planning.
Locations, travel and lodging
Mayo Clinic has major campuses in Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona; Jacksonville, Florida; and Rochester, Minnesota. The Mayo Clinic Health System has dozens of locations in several states.
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Costs and insurance
Mayo Clinic works with hundreds of insurance companies and is an in-network provider for millions of people.
In most cases, Mayo Clinic doesn't require a physician referral. Some insurers require referrals or may have additional requirements for certain medical care. All appointments are prioritized on the basis of medical need.
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