Midline Skull Base Surgery

This richly illustrated book offers detailed, step-by-step guidance on surgical approaches and techniques in patients with midline tumors of the skull base. Access routes are described from both endoscopic and microscopic standpoints, via different approaches, in order to provide a 360-degree overvi...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Cappabianca, Paolo (Editor), Cavallo, Luigi Maria (Editor), de Divitiis, Oreste (Editor), Esposito, Felice (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Part I Pituitary adenomas
  • 1 Introduction to pituitary adenomas
  • 2 Endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal approach (standard and extended technique)
  • 3 Endoscopic endonasal ethmoid-pterygoid transsphenoidal approach to the cavernous sinus
  • 4 Frontotemporal approach
  • 5 Radiotherapy and radiosurgery
  • Part II Craniopharyngiomas
  • 6 Introduction to craniopharyngiomas
  • 7 Endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal approach
  • 8 Frontotemporal approach
  • 9 Supraorbital approach
  • 10 Transcallosal approach
  • 11 Radiotherapy and radiosurgery for craniopharyngiomas
  • Part III Cystic sellar lesions
  • 12 Introduction to cystic sellar lesions
  • 13 Arachnoid cysts
  • 14 Rathke cleft cyst
  • Part IV Anterior cranial fossa meningiomas
  • 15 Introduction to anterior cranial fossa meningiomas
  • 16 Endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal approach
  • 17 Frontotemporal approach
  • 18 Subfrontal approach
  • 19 Supraorbital approach
  • 20 Radiotherapy and radiosurgery
  • Part V Clival chordomas
  • 21 Introduction to clival chordomas
  • 22 Endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal approach
  • 23 Retrosigmoid approach
  • 24 Skull base approaches
  • 25 Radiotherapy, radiosurgery and proton beam
  • Part VI Cranial base reconstruction after transcranial and transnasal skull base surgery
  • 26 Indications for cranial base reconstruction
  • 27 Neuroradiology in cranial base reconstruction
  • 28 Anatomy of cranial base reconstruction
  • 29 Techniques for cranial base reconstruction.