Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery: A Comprehensive Guide with Illustrative Cases

Description

To date, more than three thousand brain and skull base tumors, along with various vascular problems, have been treated by using advanced, fully endoscopic, minimally invasive surgical techniques. In Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery, Dr. Hrayr K. Shahinian, director of the Skull Base Institute, compiles these techniques. Highly specific and amply illustrated by over six hundred color photographs complete with a compendium of the necessary surgical instruments, the step-by-step operating room procedures provide a definitive guide to the difficult yet essential art of skull base surgery. Comprehensive and concise, Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery is ideal for all surgical specialists and those training to become specialists who wish to gain a new tool in the noble, on-going cause of saving lives. Front Matter....Pages i-xviii Introduction....Pages 1-3 Anesthetic Considerations in Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery....Pages 5-9 Neuroendocrine Aspects of Skull Base Surgery....Pages 11-19 Interventional Neuroradiology Aspects of Skull Base Surgery....Pages 21-27 Instrumentation in Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery....Pages 29-41 The Fully Endoscopic Endonasal Approach....Pages 43-71 The Fully Endoscopic Transglabellar Approach....Pages 73-88 The Fully Endoscopic Supraorbital Approach....Pages 89-107 The Fully Endoscopic Retrosigmoid Approach....Pages 109-171 The Fully Endoscopic Subtemporal Approach....Pages 173-187 Back Matter....Pages 189-193