Overview
- A comprehensive guide to the diagnosis and treatment of cerebellopontine angle tumors with the principal focus on surgical management
- Emphasizes the need for an individualized approach tailored to the tumor variant
- Explains the main steps in surgical management and provides details and technical tips that will improve results
- Many informative figures/case illustrations
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
“This is a comprehensive picture (radiographic, anatomical) text on posterior fossa pathologies encountered by experienced neurosurgeons. … I highly recommend this book to neurologists, neurosurgeons, and neurooncologists. Fellows, students, junior, and seasoned surgeons will find the book helpful.” (Joseph J. Grenier, Amazon.com, May, 2015)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Madjiid Samii is currently President of the International Neuroscience Institute in Hannover, Germany, President of the China International Neuroscience Institute at the Capital Medical University, Beijing, China and President of the Iran International Neuroscience Institute at Tehran University of Medical Sciences. He was Director of the Neurosurgical Clinic at Nordstadt Hospital, Hannover, from 1977 to 2002 and Chair of Neurosurgery at the Medical School of Hannover from 1988. In 1992, he was elected as President of the International Skull Base Society (ISNS) and President of the World Federation of Skull Base Societies. He also served as President of the German Society of Neurosurgery from 1996 to 1998. Professor Samii is author of 15 neurosurgical books, numerous book chapters and more than 500 publications on peripheral nerves, spinal tumors and syringomyelia, skull base pathology, brain tumors and cranial nerve disorders. He has given more than 1000 lectures as invited and/or honoured guest of numerous national and international congresses.
Venelin M. Gerganov is an associate professor and attending neurosurgeon at the International Neuroscience Institute in Hannover, Germany. He has been trained at the Neurosurgical Department of Sofia Medical University and then in Hannover under Professor Madjid Samii. His scientific and clinical interests are skull base surgery, endoscopy, intraoperative and functional imaging and neurooncology. Dr. Gerganov is author of 25 book chapters and more than 40 scientific articles in journals, referenced in Pubmed.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Surgery of Cerebellopontine Lesions
Authors: Madjid Samii, Venelin Gerganov
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35422-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-35421-2Published: 19 April 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52101-4Published: 27 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-35422-9Published: 27 March 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 885
Number of Illustrations: 196 b/w illustrations, 158 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neurosurgery, Neurology, Neuroradiology, Otorhinolaryngology