Comprehensive Management of Skull Base Tumors

Ehab Y. Hanna, Franco DeMonte

General Principles


Anatomy of the Cranial Base; Carolina Martins and Albert L. Rhoton, Jr.


Pathology of Tumor and Tumor-like Lesions of the Skull Base; Michelle D. Williams and Adel K. El-Naggar


Genetic Abnormalities of Skull Base Tumors; Ziv Gil and Dan M. Fliss


Imaging of Skull Base Neoplasms; Lawrence E. Ginsberg


Head, Neck, and Neuro-otologic Assessment of Patients with Tumors of the Skull Base: Clinical


Examination, Auditory Testing, Vestibular Testing, and Equilibrium; Paul W. Gidley


Anesthesia and Intraoperative Monitoring of Patients with Tumors of the Skull Base; Walter S. Jellish and Steven B. Edelstein


Minimally Invasive Techniques: Endonasal Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery; Allan D. Vescan, Ricardo L. Carrau, Carl H.


Snyderman, Amin B. Kassam, Arlan Mintz, and Paul Gardner


Reconstruction of Skull Base Defects; Peter C. Neligan, Christine B. Novak, and Patrick J. Gullane


Prosthetic Rehabilitation of Patients Undergoing Skull Base Surgery; Theresa M. Hofstede, Rhonda F. Jacob, Pattii C.


Montgomery, Peggy J. Wesley, Jack W. Martin, and Mark S. Chambers


Radiobiology and Radiation Therapy of SkullBase Tumors; Simon S. Lo, John H. Suh, and Eric L. Chang


Chemotherapy for Skull Base Tumors; Bilal Ahmed, Ehab Y. Hanna, and Merrill S. Kies


Rehabilitation of Speech and Swallowing of Patients with Tumors of the Skull Base; Gail L. Davie, Denise A. Barringer, and Jan S. Lewin


Quality of Life of Patients with Skull Base Tumors; Ziv Gil and Dan M. Fliss


Neurocognitive Assessment of Patients with Tumors of the Skull Base; Mariana Witgert and Tracy Veramonti


Cerebrovascular Management in Skull Base Tumors; Sabareesh Kumar Natarajan, Basavaraj Ghodke, and


Laligam N. Sekhar


Site-Specific Considerations


Surgical Management of Tumors of the Nasal Cavity, Paranasal Sinuses, Orbit, and Anterior Skull Base; Ehab Y. Hanna, Michael Kupferman, and Franco DeMonte


Tumors of the Nasopharynx; William Ignace Wei and Paul K. Y. Lam


Clival Tumors; Franco DeMonte, Mark J. Dannenbaum, and Ehab Y. Hanna


Tumors of the Anterior Skull Base; Vijayakumar Javalkar, Bharat Guthikonda, Prasad Vannemreddy, and Anil Nanda


Infratemporal/Middle Fossa Tumors; Paul J. Donald


Tumors of the Parapharyngeal Space; Eric J. Moore and Kerry D. Olsen


Tumors of the Temporal Bone; Sam J. Marzo and John P. Leonetti


Evaluation and Management of Sellar Tumors; Jay Jagannathan, Edward R. Laws, and


John A. Jane, Jr.


Tumors of the Middle Cranial Fossa; Ali A. Baaj, Siviero Agazzi, and Harry R. van Loveren


Tumors of the Petrous Apex; Ricardo Ramina, Mauricio Coelho Neto, Yvens, Barbosa Fernandes, Erasmo Barros da Silva, Jr., and Kristofer Luiz Fingerle Ramina


Tumors of the Cerebellopontine Angle; Bryan C. Oh, Daniel J. Hoh, and Steven L. Giannotta


Tumors of the Jugular Foramen; Samer Ayoubi, Badih Adada, and Ossama Al-Mefty


Tumors of the Craniovertebral Junction; Douglas Fox, Scott Wait, Steve Chang, G. Vini Khurana, Curtis A. Dickman, Volker K. H. Sonntag, and Robert F. Spetzler


Tumor-Specific Considerations


Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Nasal Cavity and Paranasal Sinuses; Patrick Sheahan, Snehal G. Patel, and Jatin P. Shah


Nonsquamous Cell Carcinoma of the Nasal Cavity and Paranasal Sinuses; Giulio Cant` u, Carlo L. Solero, Stefano Riccio, and Sarah Colombo


Esthesioneuroblastoma; Valerie J. Lund and David J. Howard


Melanoma of the Nasal Cavity and Paranasal Sinuses; Ziv Gil, Mark H. Bilsky, and Dennis H. Kraus


Sarcomas of the Skull Base; Katherine A. Thornton and Robert S. Benjamin


Angiofibromas and Vascular Tumors of the Skull Base; Andrew G. Sikora and Randal S. Weber


Chordoma and Chondrosarcoma of the Skull Base; Gordon T. Sakamoto and Griffith R. Harsh


Meningioma; Ashwin Viswanathan and Franco DeMonte


Schwannomas of the Skull Base; Daniel W. Nuss and Emily Lifsey Burke


Paragangliomas of the Head and Neck; David P. Goldstein, Mark G. Shrime, Bernard Cummings, and Patrick J. Gullane


Pituitary Adenomas; Mark Hornyak and William T. Couldwell


Craniopharyngioma: Neurosurgical Management; Douglas James Cook and James T. Rutka


Epidermoids, Dermoids, and Other Cysts of the Skull Base; Samuel P. Gubbels and Bruce J. Gantz


Fibro-Osseous Lesions of the Skull Base; Ian T. Jackson


Metastatic Skull Base Tumors; Krishna Satyan and Sujit S. Prabhu


Index