Experts carrying out surgery through the nose can now look round corners thanks to a new instrument.

Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital is the first in the UK to have bought a new tool called Cyclops, which offers a 360-degree view.

Surgeons can pan from 10 to 90 degrees in any direction through a 4.2mm endoscope inserted into the nose.

Consultant ear, nose and throat and skull base surgeon Shahz Ahmed said: “The Cyclops offers superior visualisation during complex endoscopic surgical procedures.

“In having a full 360-degree view within one instrument, I can inspect the patient’s entire skull base and sinuses through the nose, allowing me to carry out the entire operation without changing to a different device.

"This means that surgery is faster and I can also preserve more normal structures that would have been removed using a standard rigid endoscope.”

Susan Wright, 67, underwent keyhole surgery to remove a brain tumour through her nose earlier this year.

The mother of three, who lives in West Bromwich with her husband Brian, said she was home within a week of having the tumour removed through her nose.

“My family and friends couldn’t believe that I had even had any surgery as there was no scar and I was so well afterwards.”