Feline Soft Tissue Surgery

Name: Feline Soft Tissue Surgery
Start: 2026-07-10T00:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-03T23:59:59+02:00
Location: Warsaw, Poland

Head & Neck Surgery

Program Director:

Univ. Prof. Dr. Gilles Dupré Dipl. ECVS (FR)

Principal Course Master(s):

Univ. Prof. Dr. Guillaume Chanoit, Dipl. ECVS, Dipl. ACVS (FR)

Course Overview

The Feline Advanced Soft Tissue Surgery course is the part of a newly designed three-part course on Advanced Feline Surgery (courses can be taken in any order). It covers Head and Neck Surgery with a particular focus on surgery of the ear, pharynx, larynx, and trachea. One of the unique features of this course is the ability for the delegates to practice endoscopy of the ENT area in the cat, with state-of-the-art equipment.

The course is opened to delegates with good experience in surgery and/or who have taken the previous ESAVS STS courses (especially STS I and IV) as there are very minimal overlap between those courses and the advanced feline surgery courses. Basic knowledge will therefore not be reviewed, and focus will be put on advanced practices.

The course includes an equivalent of 7-8 hrs of recorded webinars and 4 days of face-to-face lectures and practicals. Lectures and webinars will be presented by world renowned ENT Surgery experts and specialists in Surgery.

Course Program (Subject to change)

Friday, 10 July 2026 – Online Course Introduction/Explanation

7 Hours of Recorded Webinars:
• Endoscopy (Otoscopy, Rhinoscopy, Pharyngoscopy, Laryngoscopy) of the head and neck of the cat (120 min) Ter Haar
• Feline ear anatomy & physiology (60 min) Ter Haar
• Diagnostic imaging of head and neck (120 min) Blond
• Surgical oncology of the face in cats (120 min) Findji

Monday, 31 August 2026 - Lectures (ear and nasopharynx)

09:00 – 09:45 Diseases of the feline outer ear (auricle and ear canal) Ter Haar
09:45 – 10:30 Casus MCQs from webinars Ter Haar / Chanoit
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00 Diseases of the feline middle ear part 1 (etiopathogenesis, symptoms and diagnosis) Ter Haar
12:00 – 12:45 Diseases of the feline middle ear part 2 (medical, endoscopic and surgical treatments) Ter Haar
12:45 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:15 Debriefing from webinars (endoscopy and imaging) Ter Haar / Chanoit
14:15 – 15:00 Diseases of the feline inner ear Ter Haar
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:30 Unilateral / bilateral nonspecific rhinitis and sinusitis – Surgical treatment of nasosinal disease Ter Haar
16:30 – 17:30 Nasopharyngeal diseases: diagnosis and treatment Ter Haar
17:30 – 18:00 Discussion Ter Haar / Chanoit
18:00 – 19:30 Icebreaker

Tuesday, 1 September 2026 - Practical excercises

08:30 – 09:00 Introduction to lab / practical exercises
09:00 – 10:30 Videos: endoscopy of the middle ear, rhinoscopy, laryngoscopy (group 1)
Dissection of the head – Amputation of the auricle, incision in ear canal for polyp removal (group 2)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Videos: endoscopy of the middle ear, rhinoscopy, laryngoscopy (group 2)
Dissection of the head – Amputation of the auricle, incision in ear canal for polyp removal (group 1)
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13.30 – 15.00 Total ear canal ablation with LBO, ventral bulla osteotomy (incl. intraoral approach)
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:30 Dorsal rhinotomy, sinusotomy, ventral rhinotomy, nasopharyngotomy and (cosmetic) amputation of the nasal planum

Wednesday, 2 September 2026 - Lectures (Neck : thyroid, parathyroid , larynx, salivary glands, trachea)

08:30 – 09:00 Introduction / Debrief
09:00 – 10:00 Thyroid and parathyroid surgery Chanoit
10:00 – 10:30 Anatomy and diagnostic work-up for laryngeal and tracheal diseases Brissot
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30 Obstructive laryngeal diseases Brissot
11:30 – 12:00 Laryngeal paralysis Chanoit
12:00 – 13:00 Debriefing face oncology (nasal planum, eyelids, ears) Chanoit / Brissot
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00 Salivary gland diseases and surgical approaches Chanoit
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:30 Obstructive tracheal diseases Brissot
16:30 – 18:00 Clinical cases session Brissot / Chanoit
19:00 Social Dinner

Thursday, 3 September 2026 - Practical exercises

08:30 – 09:00 Introduction to lab
09:00 – 10:30 Total ear canal ablation with LBO, ventral bulla osteotomy (incl. intraoral approach)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Sialedectomy
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:00 Approaches to larynx (incl. tieback) – trachea (incl. resection) – thyroid / parathyroid
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:30 Dorsal rhinotomy, sinusotomy, ventral rhinotomy, nasopharyngotomy, and (cosmetic) amputation of the nasal planum
17:30 – 18:00 Farewell