Endoscopic skull base surgery: a comprehensive guide with illustrative cases

To date, more than three thousand brain and skull base tumors, along with various vascular problems, have been treated by using advanced, fully endoscopic,minimally invasive surgical techniques. In Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery, Dr.Hrayr K. Shahinian, director of the Skull Base Institute, compiles these techniques. Highly specific and amply illustrated by over six hundred color photographs complete with a compendium of the necessary surgical instruments, the step-by-step operating room procedures provide a definitive guide to the difficult yet essential art of skull base surgery. Comprehensive and concise, Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery is ideal for all surgical specialists and those training to become specialists who wish to gain a new tool in the noble, on-going cause of saving lives. Contains over six hundred high resolution color images. Provides detailed surgical instructions, fully illustrated. Catalogues the cutting-edge surgeries of the world renowned Skull Base Institute. INDICE: Introduction.- Anesthetic Considerations in Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery.- Neuroendocrine Aspects of Skull Base Surgery.- Interventional Neuroradiology Aspects of Skull Base Surgery.- Instrumentation in Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery.- The Fully Endoscopic Endonasal Approach.- The Fully Endoscopic Transglabellar Approach.- The Fully Endoscopic Supraorbital Approach.- The Fully Endoscopic Retrosigmoid Approach.- The Fully Endoscopic Subtemporal Approach.

• ISBN: 978-1-58829-814-0
• Editorial: Humana
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 250
• Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés