Matthew Kabalan, MD

Biography

A lifelong Western New Yorker, Dr. Kabalan earned his medical degree from the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo and completed his residency training in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery through the school’s Department of Otolaryngology. After residency, Kabalan completed a one-year fellowship in rhinology at the Cleveland Clinic.

In addition to his role at UBMD, Kabalan will serve as attending otolaryngologist at ECMC and assistant professor of otolaryngology at the University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine.

Dr. Kabalan has trained with internationally renowned rhinologists and skull base neurosurgeons and will pair with neurosurgical partners to provide oncologic care for a variety of sinonasal and skull base tumors through a minimally invasive, endoscopic approach.

Conditions Treated by Dr. Matthew Kabalan

Sinus/nasal

• Chronic sinusitis/rhinosinusitis of all causes
• Nasal polyps
• Deviated nasal septum
• Inferior turbinate hypertrophy
• Nasal/sinus mass or tumor, both benign and malignant
• Chronic rhinitis of all causes (allergic, vasomotor, etc.)
• Hyposmia/anosmia
• Epistaxis, including due to inherited conditions such as a hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT)
• Mucocele

Skull base

• Sinonasal cancers
• Intracranial and other skull base tumors – pituitary tumors, meningioma, craniopharyngioma, chordoma, and more
• Cerebrospinal fluid leaks from the nose, including spontaneous, posttraumatic, iatrogenic

Orbit – certain eye pathologies can be accessed and treated through an endonasal endoscopic approach

• Epiphora / nasolacrimal duct obstruction / excessive tearing
• Thyroid eye disease / Graves orbitopathy
• Orbital tumors (in select cases)

Common Rhinology Procedures Performed – Note that the following procedures are all performed endoscopically through the nose

• Resection of central nervous system and skull base tumors accessible through the nose, in conjunction with neurosurgery
• Sinus surgery
• Nasal airway surgery (e.g., septoplasty, inferior turbinate reduction)
• Repair of cerebrospinal fluid leaks
• Medial orbital decompression
• Dacryocystorhinostomy
• Control of epistaxis, including sclerotherapy for HHT
• Posterior nasal nerve ablation
• Resection of sinus/nasal tumors