Rhoton's Cranial Anatomy and Surgical Approaches

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THE DEFINING WORK IN NEUROSURGERY, REISSUED FOR A NEW GENERATION OF TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE Cranial Anatomy and Surgical Approaches is the master work of the legendary neurosurgeon Albert L. Rhoton, Jr. -- a distillation of 40 years of work to improve safety, accuracy, and gentleness in the medical specialty the author helped shape. Newly reissued and featuring more than 2000 full-color illustrations, this definitive text on the microsurgical anatomy of the brain remains an essential tool for the education and enrichment of neurosurgeons at any career stage. It fulfils its author's hopes to make, in his words, the "delicate, fateful, and awesome" procedures of neurosurgery more gentle, accurate, and safe. Across three sections, Cranial Anatomy and Surgical Approaches details the safest approaches to brain surgery, including: · Micro-operative techniques and instrument selection · Microsurgical anatomy and approaches to the supratentorial area and anterior cranial base, including chapters on aneurysms, the lateral and third ventricles, cavernous sinus and sella. · Anatomy and approaches to the posterior cranial fossa and posterior cranial base, including chapters on the fourth ventricle, tentorial incisura, foramen magnum, temporal bone, and jugular foramen · Supra- and infratentorial areas, including chapters on the cerebrum and cerebellum and their arteries and veins Cover Copyright page EDITOR’S LETTER TO FIRST PRINTING FOREWORD TO FIRST PRINTING PART 1 OPERATIVE TECHNIQUES AND INSTRUMENTATION FOR NEUROSURGERY 1. OPERATIVE TECHNIQUES AND INSTRUMENTATION FOR NEUROSURGERY PART 2 THE SUPRATENTORIAL CRANIAL SPACE: MICROSURGICAL ANATOMY AND SURGICAL APPROACHES 1. THE CEREBRUM 2. THE SUPRATENTORIAL ARTERIES 3. ANEURYSMS 4. THE CEREBRAL VEINS 5. THE LATERAL AND THIRD VENTRICLES 6. THE ANTERIOR AND MIDDLE CRANIAL BASE 7. THE ORBIT 8. THE SELLAR REGION 9. THE CAVERNOUS SINUS, THE CAVERNOUS VENOUS PLEXUS, AND THE CAROTID COLLAR PART 3 THE POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA: MICROSURGICAL ANATOMY AND SURGICAL APPROACHES 1. CEREBELLUM AND FOURTH VENTRICLE 2. THE CEREBELLAR ARTERIES 3. THE POSTERIOR FOSSA VEINS 4. THE CEREBELLOPONTINE ANGLE AND POSTERIOR FOSSA CRANIAL NERVES BY THE RETROSIGMOID APPROACH 5. TENTORIAL INCISURA 6. THE FORAMEN MAGNUM 7. THE FAR- LATERAL APPROACH AND ITS TRANSCONDYLAR, SUPRACONDYLAR, AND PARACONDYLAR EXTENSIONS 8. THE TEMPORAL BONE AND TRANSTEMPORAL APPROACHES 9. JUGULAR FORAMEN 10. THE POSTERIOR FOSSA CISTERNS