Skull Base Surgery of the Posterior Fossa (eBook)

William T. Couldwell, MD, PhDProfessor and ChairmanDepartment of NeurosurgeryUniversity of UtahSalt Lake City, UTUSA

Table of ContentsSkull Base Surgery of the Posterior FossaEdited by William T. Couldwell I. IntroductionChapter OneSurgical Anatomy of the Posterior Fossa Jaafar Basma, M.D. and Jeffrey Sorenson, M.D. II. ApproachesChapter Two Retrosigmoid Craniotomy and its VariantsChristian Bowers M.D.; Olaide O. Ajayi M.D.;Kevin A. Reinard M.D.;Daniel R. Klinger M.D.; Johnny B. Delashaw M.D.;Shane Tubbs Ph.D. PA-C, and Zachary Litvack M.D.  Chapter ThreeMiddle Fossa and Translabyrinthine ApproachesJustin C. Sowder, MD; Breanne L. Schiffer, MD, MPH; Richard K. Gurgel, MD, and Clough Shelton, MD Chapter FourPosterior and Combined Petrosal ApproachesDavid Aum, BA,; Omar Arnaout, MD,; Marcio Rassi, MD,; Walid I. Essayed, MD, and Ossama Al-Mefty, MD Chapter FiveFar Lateral Approach and Its VariantsAngela M. Richardson, MD, PhD,; Karolyn Au, MD, MSc, and Jacques Morcos, MD, FRCS (Eng), FRCS (Ed), FAANS  Chapter SixEndoscopic Endonasal Approach for Posterior Fossa TumorsAndré Beer-Furlan,; Alexandre Bossi Todeschini,; Ricardo L. Carrau,  and Daniel M. Prevedello  III. Specific Diseases:Chapter SevenPetroclival MeningiomasAmol Raheja, M.B.B.S, M.Ch.;  and William T. Couldwell, M.D., Ph.D. Chapter EightMeningiomas of the Cerebellopontine AngleStephen Magill; Philip Theodosopoulos; Aron Tward; Steve Cheung; and Michael W. McDermott Chapter NineTentorial MeningiomasHiroki Morisako, MD, PhD; Takeo Goto, MD, PhD;  and Kenji Ohata, MD, PhD Chapter TenForamen Magnum MeningiomasAngela M. Richardson, MD, PhD,; Karolyn Au, MD, MSc, and Jacques Morcos, MD, FRCS (Eng), FRCS (Ed), FAANS Chapter ElevenSurgical Approaches for the Removal of Vestibular SchwannomasGmaan Alzrhani, MD,; Clough Shelton, MD,; and William T. Couldwell, MD, PhD Chapter TwelveEpidermoid CystGmaan Alzhrani, MD, and William T. Couldwell, MD, PhD Chapter ThirteenMetastasis to the Posterior FossaBradley D. Weaver, B.S. and Randy L. Jensen M.D., Ph.D Chapter FourteenMicrosurgical Management of Posterior Fossa Vascular Lesions M. Yashar; S. Kalani, MD, PhD and Robert F. Spetzler, MD