The Department of Hygeia for Endoscopic Paranasal & Skull Base Surgery offers comprehensive, highly specialized care for the full spectrum of conditions affecting the nose, paranasal sinuses, and the base of the skull, in both adult and pediatric patients.
The Department forms an integral part of the Hygeia Hospital Head & Neck Clinic and provides both conservative and advanced surgical treatments, tailored to each patient’s individual needs. Emphasis is placed on minimally invasive, endoscopic techniques, ensuring optimal functional and aesthetic outcomes, faster recovery, and enhanced patient safety.
The Department has extensive expertise in general rhinology, endoscopic skull base surgery, functional and cosmetic rhinoplasty, and the diagnosis and management of nasal and sinus allergies. Additionally, it performs endoscopic rhino-neurosurgery, an innovative and highly specialized surgical approach applied to select adult and pediatric patients. These complex procedures are carried out in close collaboration with other HHG neurosurgery teams, allowing for the safe management of conditions involving the skull base and adjacent intracranial structures.
Areas of Specialization:
- General rhinology
- Endoscopic skull base surgery
- Rhinoplasty (functional and cosmetic)
- Allergies
- Endoscopic rhino-neurosurgery (in collaboration with HHG neurosurgery teams)
Conditions & Services:
- Chronic rhinosinusitis and its complications (intracranial and intraorbital)
- Benign nasal and paranasal sinus tumors, including inverted papillomas and angiofibromas
- Malignant nasal and paranasal sinus tumors, such as squamous cell carcinoma, olfactory neuroblastoma, adenoid cystic carcinoma, and adenocarcinoma, with or without intracranial extension
- Skull base tumors, including pituitary adenomas, cholesterol granulomas, meningiomas, chordomas, and chondrosarcomas
Director: Dr. Christos Georgalas, Head and Neck Department & Endoscopic Paranasal & Skull Base Surgery, Otolaryngologist
Dr. Georgalas PhD, DLO, MRCS, FRCS(ORL-HNS), FEB(ORL-HNS) Hon graduated with Magna Cum Laude from the University of Athens and trained in Otolaryngology in London (North Thames Rotation). He completed a rhinology/facial plastic fellowship in Hopital Lariboisiere, Paris and Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, where he was appointed as faculty from 2007 to 2015.
During that time he created and directed (with dr van Furth, Neurosurgeon) the first Endoscopic Skull Base Centre in Netherlands (ESA – Endoscopic Skull Base Centre, Amsterdam), a multi disciplinary Centre involving AMC, Vrij Universiteit Medical Center and National Cancer Institute. He is the most highly cited Greek Otolaryngologist (more than 9000 citations (Scopus)—20000 citations (Google Scholar) with more than 160 peer-reviewed publications. He is the editor of the textbooks “Rhinology and Skull Base Surgery” and “The Frontal Sinus: Surgical Approaches and Controversies” by Thieme and has written chapters in a number of international books. He has been an invited speaker and surgical tutor in international courses and workshops in 43 countries, and given more than 700 invited lectures, nationally and internationally.
He served in the International Editorial Board for Clinical Otolaryngology and was assistant editor for Rhinology Journal as well as the American Journal of Rhinology and Allergy and was the National representative for Netherland at the European Rhinology Society from 2010 to 2015.