Surgery of Cerebellopontine Lesions

• Main Authors: Samii, Madjid (Author), Gerganov, Venelin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neuroradiology.; Neurology.; Neurosurgery.; Otorhinolaryngology.; Medicine & Public Health.

Surgery is the mainstay of treatment of almost all cerebellopontine angle lesions. As a result of the progress in neuroanatomy, neuroradiology, neuroanesthesiology, microsurgery and other adjacent fields, total tumor removal with preservation of neurological function has become the generally accepte...

Table of Contents:

• History of cerebellopontine Angle Surgery
• Microsurgical Anatomy of the cerebellopontine Angle by the retrosigmoid Approach
• Neuropathology of the cerebellopontine Angle and its Surroundings
• Approaches to the cerebellopontine Angle
• Vestibular Schwannomas
• Neurofibromatosis Type 2 and other bilateral cerebellopontine Angle Tumors
• Meningiomas
• Cerebellopontine Angle Epidermoids
• Nonvestibular Schwannomas.- Jugular Foramen Tumors
• Other cerebellopontine Angle Tumors
• Management of Facial Palsy.