Surgery of the Skull Base

Part 1 Introduction: history of skull base surgery, Paul J. Donald; surgical anatomy of the skull base, Bernard M. Lyons; pathology of skull base tumours, Regina Gandour-Edwards et al; pathophysiology of skull base malignancies, Keith Jackson et al; presentation and preparation of patients with skull base lesions, Paul J. Donald; imaging of the skull base, Alfred L. Weber and Hugh D. Curtin; carotid artery assessment and interventional radiologic procedures before skull base surgery, William R. Nemzek; nursing care of skull base surgery patients, Ann E.F. Sievers and Denise Borcyckowski; intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring, Robert J. Sclabassi et al. Part 2 Anterior fossa approaches: transfacial approach, Paul J. Donald; facial degloving approach, Joao J. Maniglia and Ricardo Ramina; extended unilateral maxillotomy approach, Edwin C. Cocke, Jr. and Jon H. Robertson; subcranial extended anterior approach, Joram Raveh et al; cranio-orbital approach, Alfred P. Bowles, Jr. and Vinod K. Anand; extended transfacial subcranial approach, Paul J. Donald; infratemporal fossa-middle cranial fossa approach, Paul J. Donald; transmandibular approach, Jack L. Gluckman et al; anterior subcranial (transbasal-derome) approach, Ricardo Ramina et al; work-up and management of the internal carotid artery in neoplastic and vascular lesions, Laligam N. Sekhar and Sarin D. Bucur. Part 3 Posterior fossa approaches: temporal bone resection, Aongus J. Curran et al; transcercivomastoid approach, Gale L. Gardner et al; retroclival approach, Madjid Samli and Marcos Tatagiba; evaluation and management of vestibular Schwannoma, Hilary A. Brodie and Pamela Bohrer; approaches to jugulotympanic paragangliomas, Rick A. Friedman and Derald E. Brackmann. Part 4 Midline approaches: extreme lateral transcondylar approach to the craniocervical junction, Chandranath Sen and Peter J. Catalano; transoral approach to the clivus and upper surgical spine, Paul J. Donald; management of the vertebral artery, Bernard George; lesions of the sella turcica, Andrew E. Sloan et al. Part 5 Adjunctive considerations: complications, Paul J. Donald; postoperative management, Bernard M. Lyons; free flaps in skull base surgery, Jonathan E. Aviv and Mark Sultan; reconstruction of the skull base with regional flaps and grafts, James L. Netterville and C. Gary Jackson.