Skull base surgery is a marginal discipline rather than a clinical discipline alone. Its specialties range from neurosurgery, otorhinolaryngology-head and neck surgery, oral and maxillofacial surgery, and even neuroimaging and interventional neurosurgery, involving orthopedic surgery and spinal surgery (upper cervical spine), with each specialty climbing to the summit of skull base surgery from its own side. The scope of neurosurgery specialization is mainly in the inner surface of the skull base, which is divided into the anterior, middle and posterior cranial fossa by the pterygoid and rocky crests. Common diseases include meningioma, pituitary tumor, auditory neuroma, cholesteatoma, chordoma, chondrosarcoma and chondrosarcoma. In recent years, the lateral skull base surgery in otorhinolaryngology-head and neck surgery has developed rapidly, and the infratemporal fossa approach is the most famous, and this approach has laid the foundation of lateral skull base surgery. The main tumors of the lateral skull base include jugular vein bullae, slope chordoma, meningioma, nerve sheath tumor, deep lobe parotid tumor and nasopharyngeal fibrovascular tumor. In fact, skull base tumors often require a multidisciplinary approach for collaborative management, which has become an important development trend. Huang An Yang, Department of Neurosurgery, National Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region The International Society of Skull Base Surgery was founded in 1988, and the first International Conference on Skull Base Surgery was held in 1992 in Hanover, Germany, under the chairmanship of Prof. Madjid Samii of the International Institute of Neuroscience in Hanover. It was decided to hold an international conference every four years and to publish an international journal of Skull Base Surgery. Accordingly, our medical profession followed this world trend in the 1990s and actively carried out clinical and basic research on skull base surgery.