Operative Skull Base Surgery

Factors influencing the choice of approach, Michael Torrens; surgical anatomy of the sphenoid bone and cavernous sinus, Atul Goel et al; surgical anatomy of the temporal bone, Toshio Matsushima et al; extended subfrontal approach to the anterior skull base and clivus, Chandranath Sen and Peter J. Catalano; extended trans-sphenoidal approach to the pituitary region and upper clivus, Rudolf Fahlbusch and Kiyoshi Matsuo; facial translocation approach to the skull base, Ivo P. Janecka; surgical approaches to the orbit, Spiros A. Lazarou; transoral approach to the clivus, H. Louis Harkey; Le Fort I osteotomy approach with midline mandibular splitting, Yoshio Tanaka and Sadao Tajima; cranio-orbito-zygomatic approach to the skull base, Kazuhiko Fujitsu; approaches to and techniques of surgery within the cavernous sinus, Vinko V. Dolenc; surgery of the intrabasal carotid surgery, Hideyuki Ohnishi; lateral extensive middle fossa approach, Kenji Ohata and Akira Hakuba; extended middle cranial fossa approaches to the civus and accustic meatus, Takeshi Kawase and Ryuzo Shiobara; translabyrinthine operation for acoustic nerve tumour, T.T. King and A. Fitzgerald O'Connor; surgical treatment of intracranial glomus tumours, Vinod K. Anand and Ossama El-Mefty; suboccipital approach to acoustic neuromas, Yuichiro Tanaka and Shigeaki KObayashi; far lateral approach to the foramen magnum, Gerald F. Tuite and H. Alan Crockard; techniques of skull base reconstruction, Ricardo Izquierdo; alternative methods for reconstruction of skull base bone using locally available alternatives, Atul Goel. Appendices: abbreviations; equipment manufacturers.