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The Cranial Nerves

Anatomy · Pathology · Pathophysiology · Diagnosis · Treatment

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Editors:
  1. M. Samii

    1. Neurosurgical Clinic, Krankenhaus Nordstadt City of Hannover, Hannover, Germany

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  2. Peter J. Jannetta

    1. Department of Neurological Surgery, Presbyterian University Hospital, Pittsburgh, USA

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Table of contents (89 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
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  2. History of Cranial Nerves Surgery. Introductory Lecture

    1. History of Cranial Nerves Surgery. Introductory Lecture

      • F. Loew
      Pages 1-5
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  3. Topographical Anatomy of the Cranial Nerves

    1. Topographical Anatomy of the Cranial Nerves

      • J. Lang
      Pages 6-15
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  4. Cranial Nerve Injury. Structural and Pathophysiological Considerations and a Classification of Nerve Injury

    1. Cranial Nerve Injury. Structural and Pathophysiological Considerations and a Classification of Nerve Injury

      • S. Sunderland
      Pages 16-23
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  5. Experimental Studies on Neural Regeneration

    1. Experimental Studies on Neural Regeneration

      • W. Kreutzberg
      Pages 24-26
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  7. Optic Nerve (Second Cranial Nerve)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. Optic Nerve, Topographic Anatomy

      • J. Lang
      Pages 77-84
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    3. Optic Nerve. Clinical Examinations and Findings

      • K. Hoffmann
      Pages 85-97
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    4. Diagnosis of Optic Nerve Lesions with Newer Techniques of Computerized Tomography

      • G. A. Meyer, J. P. Davis, D. L. Daniels, W. E. Gager, V. M. Haughton
      Pages 98-107
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    5. Misinterpretation of Progressive Visual Disturbances

      • H.-P. Jensen, H. Klinge, U. Muhtaroglu
      Pages 108-115
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    6. Transcranial Decompression of Optic Nerve After Trauma

      • J. Brihaye
      Pages 116-124
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    7. Microsurgical Transethmoidal Optic Nerve Decompression: Experience in 700 Cases

      • Y. Fukado
      Pages 125-128
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    8. Childhood Optic Gliomas. Microsurgical Treatment

      • W. Koos, A. Perneczky, H. Schuster
      Pages 129-135
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No special field of surgery dealing with the cranial nerves exists today. This is not surprising in view of the characteristics of this group of morphologically and topo­ graphically heterogenous nerves. Morphologically we must differentiate between central nerves (I, II and VIII) and the so-called peripheral nerves (nn. III to VII and IX to XII), in which post-lesion rgeneration is quite different. Anatomo-topographi­ cally we must consider an intracranial and an extracranial part of each cranial nerve. For practical reasons at operation, further subdivisions of the intracranial course of cranial nerves are to be distinguished in the anterior, middle and posterior cranial fossae as well as within the petrous bone. This underscores the extensive tasks awaiting surgeons operating in the ventral part of the brain and facial skull as well as in the more dorsal part of the skull and neck. This very wide field cannot be covered by a single surgical discipline alone. In our opinion, considerable progress has been made in surgery of the cranial nerves only in recent years. This may be explained by the increased mastery of microsurgical techniques by all surgeons in­ terested in the surgery of the base of the skull as well as with the initiation of more interdisciplinary consultation and jointly performed operations. Possibilities of fu­ ture development can be discerned in the text. The base of the skull separating the extra-and intracranial part of cranial nerves should not be a barrier but a connect­ ing link.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Neurosurgical Clinic, Krankenhaus Nordstadt City of Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    M. Samii

  • Department of Neurological Surgery, Presbyterian University Hospital, Pittsburgh, USA

    Peter J. Jannetta

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Cranial Nerves

  • Book Subtitle: Anatomy · Pathology · Pathophysiology · Diagnosis · Treatment

  • Editors: M. Samii, Peter J. Jannetta

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67980-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1981

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-67982-7Published: 21 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-67980-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 664

  • Topics: Neurosurgery

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