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Dr B.Karthikeyan carries a vast experience in treating head and neck malignancies and lateral skull base tumor's. He did his fellowship in head and neck oncosurgery under Dr.Sultan Pradhan in prince Aly Khan hospital, mumbai. This hospital is a DNB center for surgical oncology, with an enormous load of head and neck oncosurgeries. Following this he did his fellowship in lateral skull base surgery under the world-renowned surgeon Prof Dr.Mario Sanna, at Gruppo Otologico in Italy.

Consultant Head & Neck Surgical Oncology & Lateral Skull Base Surgeon, Fellowship trained in Head & Neck Oncosurgery,  Fellowship trained in Lateral Skull Base surgery

Education

  • MBBS, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore, 2003
  • MS (Otorhinolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery), K.L.E University, Belgaum, Karnataka, 2010
  • Clinical Fellowship in Head & Neck Oncosurgery, 2011 -2013 (Trained under an internationally acclaimed Surgical Oncologist, Dr. Sultan Ahmed Pradhan).
  • Clinical Fellowship in Lateral Skull base surgery, 2014 – 2015 (Skull Base Surgery at the Gruppo Otologico, Rome-Piacenza, Italy. Trained under internationally acclaimed skull base surgeon, Prof. Mario Sanna).
  • Fellow of the International Federation for Head and Neck Oncology Society (IFHNOS), 2015 -2017 (Global Online Fellowship conducted by IFHNOS and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), U.S.A. for Head and Neck Oncosurgery).

Clinical Services

  • InClinic Consultation

Professional Experience

  •  Head & Neck surgery – Glossectomies, Total and partial laryngectomy, maxillectomy, mandibulectomy, parotidectomy, thyroidectomy, gastric pull up, neck dissection, transoral laser microsurgery, pedicled flaps.
  • Lateral Skull base surgery – translabyrinthine/transotic/transcochlear approaches,  subtemporal bone resection and infratemporal fossa approaches.
  • Endoscopic skull base  endoscopic JNA excision, endoscopic medial maxillectomy

Surgeries

  • Mandibulectomy / Composite resection
  • Marginal Mandibulectomy
  • Glossectomy
  • Voice Conservative Larynal Surgery
  • Total Laryngectomy
  • Pharyngectomy
  • Maxillectomy
  • Parapharyngeal tumour excision
  • Orbital tumour Excision
  • Thyroidectomy
  • Parathyroidectomy
  • Tracheal resection and anastomosis
  • Neck dissection
  • Subtotal petrosectomy
  • Lateral temporal bone resection
  • Subtotal temporal bone resection
  • Trans - Otic approach for petrous bone cholesteatoma
  • Infratemporal fossa approaches A,B,C

Instrument Proficiencies

  • 0, 30, 45 degree nasal endoscopes
  • S 21 & Pico Zeiss Microscopes
  • All rigid scopes including Steiner’s distendable oropharyngo/laryngoscopes for TOLR
  • Co2 laser
  • Facial nerve monitors

Scientific paper publications in chronological order

  • Original Report “XIAP inhibits gentamicin-induced hair cell damage and ototoxicity through the caspase-3/9 pathway” Biochemical Pharmacology, Volume 186,2021,114513.
  • Case Report “Rare instances of long-term recurrence in two cases of vestibular schwannoma after total tumor removal (13 and 16 years after surgery)”. Orissa Journal of Otolaryngology and Head Neck Surgery. 12. 1- 4. 10.21176/ojolhns.2018.12.1.1.
  • Original report “surgical technique and sural nerve cable graft interpositioning of the facial nerve in lateral skull base surgery: The Gruppo Otologico experience in 213 consecutive cases”. Published online April 7, 2017; DOI 10.3171/2016.9.JNS 16997.
  • Editorial Review “surgical technique and sural nerve cable graft interpositioning of the facial nerve in lateral skull base surgery”. Published online April 7, 2017; DOI 10.3171/2016.10.JNS 162354
  • How I Do It “Management of post operative high output salivary fistulas in head and neck surgeries” International Journal of head and neck surgery, January-April 2013;4 (1):59-60.
  • Review article “Role of angiogenetic markers to predict neck node metastasis in head and neck cancers” J Cancer Res Ther – April-June 2010 – volume6-issue 2.

Publications / Chapters in Books

  • Co-authored a chapter on “Transoral Microlaryngoscopic LASER surgery for cancer of larynx and hypopharynx”, in textbook of “Atlas of operative otorhinolaryngology and head and neck surgery.
  • Co-authored a chapter on “Transoral LASER assisted Open Vertical Partial Laryngectomy”, in textbook of “Atlas of operative otorhinolaryngology and head and neck surgery”.
  • Co-authored a chapter on “Lip reconstruction”, in textbook of “Atlas of operative otorhinolaryngology and head and neck surgery”.

Conferences/workshops

  • “LION 2008” Live International Otology Network, Belgaum, Karnataka.
  • “International workshop on laryngotracheal airway problems” Prince Aly Khan hospital, 2012, Mumbai.
  • National workshop on Transoral Laser Surgeries in cancer of larynx and hypopharynx” Prince Aly Khan hospital, Mumbai.
  • “International workshop on laryngotracheal airway problems” Prince Aly Khan hospital, 2013, Mumbai

Practice hours

10:00 AM - 07:00 PM

0427-2262320 , +91 95416 72320
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