Topics for the WCEES2026
Otology Topics
- Cholesteatoma Surgery: endoscopic vs. microscopic approaches
- Cholesteatoma: classification and outcomes
- Pediatric otitis media and cholesteatoma
- Extensive cholesteatoma of the temporal bone
- Eustachian Tube dysfunction and management
- Otosclerosis and Stapes Surgery, outcome and complications
- Tympanoplasty and ossiculoplasty: Endoscopic vs. microscopic
- Ossicular chain reconstruction techniques and materials
- Congenital Ear Anomalies: Management of congenital aural atresia
- Hearing rehabilitation in congenital ear malformations
- Inner ear regeneration
- Management of middle ear tumors
- Otologic Trauma: Management of temporal bone fractures
- Necrotizing otitis externa and skull base osteomyelitis: diagnosis and management
Endoscopic Ear Surgery Topics
- Principles of endoscopic ear surgery
- Transitioning from microscopic to endoscopic approaches
- Instrumentation and technological advancements in endoscopic ear surgery
- Endoscopic surgery of external, middle and inner ear
- Endoscopic management of middle ear tumors
- Endoscopic approaches to mastoiditis and petrous apex lesions
- Pediatric Endoscopic Ear Surgery
- Complications and Revision Surgery
- Management of complications in endoscopic ear surgery
- Endoscopic approaches to revision surgery
- Innovations and Future Directions
- 3D endoscopy in ear surgery
- Exoscope
- Robotics and AI in endoscopic ear surgery
- Advances in endoscopic imaging (e.g., 4K, narrow-band imaging)
Eustachian Tube Research and Interventions
- Updated Management of ET dysfunction
- Ballon dilation of ET
- Pediatric tuboplasty
- Adverse events, failures and Outcomes of ET dilation
- Updated consensus of ETD management
Hearing implants and Cochlear Implantation Topics
- Surgical Techniques and tips and pearls
- Endoscopic-assisted cochlear implantation
- Minimally invasive cochlear implantation
- Pediatric Cochlear Implantation
- Early implantation and outcomes
- Management of congenital anomalies in cochlear implantation
- Bilateral cochlear implantation in children
- Adult Cochlear Implantation
- Cochlear implantation in single-sided deafness
- Outcomes of CI in elderly patients
- Electroacoustic stimulation (EAS) and hybrid cochlear implants
- Techniques for residual hearing preservation during CI and long-term outcome
- CI complications and Challenges: diagnosis and management
- Cochlear implantation in otosclerosis and other challenging cases
- CI revision surgery
- Future Directions and new innovation in CI surgery
- Advances in cochlear implant technology
- Totally implantable cochlear implants
- Robotic-assisted cochlear implantation
- Artificial intelligence in cochlear implant programming
Neurotology and Skull Base Topics
- Vestibular schwannoma surgery: endoscopic and microscopic approaches
- Vestibular schwannoma: lines of management
- Vestibular disorders: diagnosis and management
- Surgical and non-surgical management of Meniere’s disease
- Superior semicircular canal dehiscence
- Management of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)
- Facial Nerve Disorders: Endoscopic facial nerve decompression
- Management of facial nerve tumors
- Rehabilitation strategies for facial nerve palsy
- Management of glomus jugulare tumors and other skull base lesions
- Surgery of Jugular foramen tumors: Neurosurgical perspective
- Endoscopic approaches to the lateral skull base
- Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Leaks: Diagnosis and management
- Techniques for hearing preservation in vestibular schwannoma surgery
- Hearing implants and cochlear implantation following skull base surgery
- Innovations and Future Directions: AI and augmented reality in lateral skull base surgery
Combined and Multidisciplinary Topics
- Combined Endoscopic-Microscopic Approaches
- Integration of endoscope, exoscope and microscope in complex skull base surgery
- Multidisciplinary approaches for advanced skull base and neurotologic pathologies
- Multidisciplinary management of otologic trauma
- Hearing restoration following lateral skull base surgery
- Advances in Neuroradiology and skull base imaging
- Advances in Neuroanesthesia for complex Neurosurgery and skull base surgery
- Advances in intraoperative Neurophysilogical monitoring for neurotology and skull base surgery
- Advances in Neuronavigation and cutting edge technology instrumentation.
