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Title Cranial, craniofacial and skull base surgery / Paolo Cappabianca, Luigi Califano, Giorgio Iaconetta, editors ; foreword by Michael L.J. Apuzzo
Published Milan : Springer, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 350 pages) : illustrations
Contents Evolution of techniques to approach the base of the skull -- Instruments -- Subfrontal approaches -- Supraorbital eyebrow approach: a less invasive corridor to lesions of the anterior cranial fossa, parasellar region, and ventral brainstem -- Frontotemporal approach -- Orbitozygomatic approach -- Transcallosal approaches to intraventrical tumors -- Subtemporal approach -- Suboccipital lateral approaches (presigmoid) -- Suboccipital lateral approaches (retrosigmoid) -- Suboccipital median approach -- Middle cranial fossa approach -- Translabyrinthine and transcochlear petrosal approaches -- Dorsolateral approach to the craniocervical junction -- Transsphenoidal approaches: endoscopic -- Endonasal endoscope-assisted microscopic approach -- Transsphenoidal approaches: microscopic -- Expanded endoscopic endonasal approaches to the skull base -- Maxillofacial surgery: evolution and approaches -- Orbital approaches -- Transoral approaches -- Midfacial approaches -- Midfacial translocation approach -- Transmandibular approaches -- Anterior cranial base reconstruction
Summary This atlas, organized in two sections -neurosurgical section and maxillo-facial section- provides a comprehensive overview of the most modern surgical techniques in cranio-facial and skull base surgery. Each chapter describes in detail the anatomic structures and offers a step-by-step description of the technical aspects of the surgical approaches to the cranial base. Written by leading experts in cranial base surgery and featuring numerous intraoperative photographs and surgical drawings, the volume will be a very practical and useful tool for residents, surgeons and otolaryngologists
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Skull base -- Surgery -- Atlases
Face -- Surgery -- Atlases
Skull Base -- surgery
Face -- surgery
MEDICAL -- Otorhinolaryngology.
Médecine.
Face -- Surgery
Skull base -- Surgery
Genre/Form atlases.
Scientific atlases
Atlases
Atlases.
Atlas.
Form Electronic book
Author Cappabianca, Paolo
Califano, Luigi
Iaconetta, Giorgio
ISBN 9788847011670
8847011671