This atlas illustrates the anatomical structures of the internal and external cranial base and their topography essential to transnasal endoscopic surgical approaches.
Currently, the majority of transnasal microsurgical interventions are largely restricted to hypophyseal interventions. The petrous part of the temporal bone and the retrosellar median area have only been cautiously approached using microsurgical endoscopy due to a current lack of technical experience and topographical knowledge. These approaches are common in the US, though, where they are already successfully conducted which calls for a profound anatomical knowledge. Thus the author focuses on the cranial base and the different approaches in order to prepare surgeons for these interventions. Several anatomical variants and special surgical aspects are presented.
The excellent drawings base upon anatomical preparations, cadaver dissections and intra-OP demonstrations collected in the course of the author's decades of neurosurgical experience.
Author(s): Wolfgang Seeger
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 194
Endoscopic and Microsurgical Anatomy of the Cranial Base......Page p0001.djvu
Front-matter......Page p0002.djvu
Title Page\r......Page p0003.djvu
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Preface......Page p0005.djvu
Table of Contents\r......Page p0006.djvu
CHAPTER I SURVEY (Figs. 1 to 8)......Page p0008.djvu
Pyramis (petrous bone)......Page p0009.djvu
Literature......Page p0026.djvu
CHAPTER II CAVUM NASI AND FOSSA PTERYGOPALATINA (Figs. 9 to 17)......Page p0027.djvu
Other paranasal sinuses (Fig. 12)......Page p0028.djvu
Nerves:......Page p0029.djvu
Literature......Page p0048.djvu
CHAPTER III SINUS SPHENOIDALIS AND FOSSA PTERYGOPALATINA (Figs. 18 to 34)......Page p0049.djvu
Fossa pterygopalatina (Figs. 22 to 26, and 28 to 33)......Page p0050.djvu
Foramen lacerum and its contents (Figs. 23 to 31)......Page p0051.djvu
Literature......Page p0086.djvu
CHAPTER IV TUBA AUDITIVA (EUSTACHII) (Figs. 35 to 40)......Page p0087.djvu
Pars ossea (C in Fig. 37, and Fig. 40)......Page p0088.djvu
Literature......Page p0101.djvu
CHAPTER V PYRAMIS (PETROUS BONE, PARS PETROSA PLUS PARS TYMPANICA) (Figs. 41 to 63)......Page p0102.djvu
Course of Canalis caroticus (Figs. 42 and 43)......Page p0103.djvu
Variants of Pyramis (Figs. 53 to 56)......Page p0104.djvu
Area of Labyrinth, Apertura ext. can. carotici and of Fossa jugularis (Figs. 60 to 63)......Page p0105.djvu
Literature......Page p0152.djvu
CHAPTER VI CLIVUS AREA AND PARS CONDYLARIS (Figs. 64 to 70)......Page p0153.djvu
Basal extracranial Clivus area (Figs. 66 to 68)......Page p0154.djvu
Dorsal intracranial Clivus area (= Clivus Blumenbachii plus condylar part) (Figs. 4, 5, and 65)......Page p0155.djvu
Literature......Page p0170.djvu
CHAPTER VII SPECIAL SURGICAL ASPECTS. EXAMPLES (Figs. 71 to 79)......Page p0171.djvu
Transnasal routes (Figs. 78 and 79)......Page p0172.djvu
Literature......Page p0191.djvu
Subject Index......Page p0192.djvu
