Cranial, Cranio-Facial and Skull Base Surgery

About this book

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.

Written for: Residents and surgeons in neurosurgery, otolaryngology and cranio-maxillo-facial surgery

Keywords:

• Cranial base
• approaches
• endoscopy
• microsurgery
• minimally invasive surgery

Table of contents

Instruments.- Subfrontal approaches (unilateral, bilateral, transfrontal basal).- Frontolateral approach + Supraorbital.- Frontotemporal approach.- Fronto Temporo Orbito Zygomatic approach (with cavernous sinus approaches).- Subtemporal approach.- Suboccipital lateral approaches (presigmoid).- Suboccipital lateral approaches (retrosigmoid).- Suboccipital median approach.- Translabyrinthine and transcochlear petrosal approaches (…).- Middle cranial fossa approach.- Cranio Cervical Junc7on approaches.- Transsphenoidal approaches: Endoscopic. Microscopic. Assisted.- Extended endoscopic skull base approaches.- Orbital approaches.- Transoral approach.- Transmaxillary and midface degloving approaches (osteotomies of the facial bones).- Transmandibular approach.