Local infiltration anesthesia during operations to remove fibroids from the base of the skull

Tumors of the nasopharyngeal space (fibroids of the base of the skull) are still considered complex and difficult due to their position, the lack of pathways for access to them and severe bleeding during their removal. A number of methods have been proposed for deleting them with preliminary operations for accessing them. In this message I will not go into consideration and evaluation of all these methods, because they are well known. I will only point out that in the fight against bleeding, surgeons did not stop even before such a heroic measure as ligation of the carotid arteries. In addition to preliminary methods for stopping bleeding, some authors offer various methods for stopping bleeding at the time of the operation itself after cutting off the leg. Prof. Razumovsky simply suggests pressing the bleeding place with a finger, prof. Nikolsky recommends autotamponade of the tumor itself, etc. This shows how difficult it is to fight bleeding at the time of the operation itself.