Midline Skull Base Surgery

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Pituitary Adenomas

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction

      • Paolo Cappabianca, Marialaura Del Basso De Caro, Alessandro Villa

      Pages 3-9

   3. Endoscopic Endonasal Transsphenoidal Approach

      • Paolo Cappabianca, Luigi Maria Cavallo, Ferdinando Caranci, Michelangelo de Angelis, Vita Stagno, Davide Luglietto et al.

      Pages 11-34

   4. Endoscopic Endonasal Ethmoid-Pterygoid Transsphenoidal Approach to the Cavernous Sinus

      • Giorgio Frank, Ernesto Pasquini

      Pages 35-48

   5. Radiotherapy and Radiosurgery

      • Giuseppe Minniti, Claudia Scaringi

      Pages 49-57

3. Craniopharyngiomas

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. Introduction

      • Paolo Cappabianca, Marialaura Del Basso De Caro, Arturo Brunetti

      Pages 61-67

   3. Endoscopic Endonasal Transsphenoidal Approach

      • Luigi Maria Cavallo, Alberto Di Somma, Francesco Briganti, Domenico Solari, Federico Frio, Luigi Maffei et al.

      Pages 69-88

   4. Cystic Craniopharyngiomas: Endoscopic Endonasal Transsphenoidal Approach

      • Neil L. Dorward, Antonio Biroli, Michelangelo de Angelis

      Pages 89-97

   5. Endoventricular Cystic Craniopharyngiomas

      • Michelangelo Gangemi

      Pages 99-104

   6. Draining Techniques for Cystic Craniopharyngiomas

      • Alberto Delitala, Renato Spaziante, Gianluigi Zona, Andrea Brunori, Daniele Marruzzo, Ilaria Melloni

      Pages 105-112

   7. Rathke’s Cleft Cyst: Endoscopic Endonasal Transsphenoidal Approach

      • Felice Esposito

      Pages 113-119

   8. Frontotemporal Approach

      • Oreste de Divitiis, Crescenzo Capone, Teresa Somma, Andrea Elefante, Pierpaolo Di Lorenzo, Paolo Cappabianca et al.

      Pages 121-136

   9. Supraorbital Approach

      • Masahiro Tanji, Ibironke Ogunbameru, Garni Barkhoudarian, Daniel F. Kelly

      Pages 137-153

   10. Transcallosal Approach

       • Filippo Flavio Angileri, Francesca Granata, Francesco Tomasello

       Pages 155-162

   11. Radiotherapy and Radiosurgery

       • Giuseppe Minniti, Claudia Scaringi

       Pages 163-169

4. Arachnoid Cysts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171

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   2. Endoscopic Endonasal Transsphenoidal Approach

      • Felice Esposito

      Pages 173-178

   3. Endoscopic Treatment of Arachnoid Cysts

      • Giuseppe Cinalli, Pietro Spennato, Giuliana Di Martino, Giuseppe Mirone, Daniele Cascone

      Pages 179-199

This richly illustrated book offers detailed, step-by-step guidance on surgical approaches and techniques in patients with midline tumors of the skull base. Access routes are described from both endoscopic and microscopic standpoints, via different approaches, in order to provide a 360-degree overview of contemporary midline skull base surgery. For each pathology, the multiple surgical options and their specific indications are clearly presented, with inclusion of neuroradiological images, an anatomical dissection study and operative images and videos. The book is intended for surgeons who wish to acquire knowledge and experience in skull base surgery employing endoscopic endonasal and microsurgical transcranial techniques. It is exceptional in providing an integrated perspective that encompasses traditional microsurgical approaches and the most recent endoscopic ones, with definition of the indications for and limitations of both options.

• Chordomas
• Craniopharyngiomas
• Endoscopic endonasal surgery
• Meningiomas
• Pituitary adenoma
• Transsphenoidal surgery
• head and neck surgery

“This is an excellent text/atlas on the diagnosis, treatment, complications, and management of all midline tumorous lesions encountered in neurosurgical patients. … Full color photographs including cadaver and intraoperative views are included. The structures are perfectly described and labeled. … The book is suited for residents, fellows and neurosurgeons.” (Joseph J. Grenier, Amazon.com, May, 2016)

• Div. of Neurosurgery Dept. of Neuroscien, University of Naples “Federico II” , Naples, Italy

  Paolo Cappabianca, Luigi Maria Cavallo, Oreste de Divitiis

• Div. of Neurosurgery Dept. of Neuroscien, University of Messina , Messina, Italy

  Felice Esposito

Paolo Cappabianca is Full Professor of Neurosurgery at the Università Federico II, Naples, Italy. He graduated in Medicine and Surgery and specialized in Neurosurgery, before enrolling as a visiting fellow at the Institute of Anatomy, University of Vienna. Besides being a full professor in functional neurosurgery and stereotactic surgery and chairman of the Neuroendoscopy Committee of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS), he worked as an associated professor at the Department of Neurological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), USA. Professor Cappabianca has been a visiting professor and  guest lecturer at  various U.S. universities, including the University of Virginia, Charlottesville; the University of California at Los Angeles and at San Francisco; Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York; the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Harvard Medical School at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston; and Univerity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He has delivered the Ginde Oration in Mumbai, India, and has also lectured in Canada, Egypt, Germany, Chile, and Japan.

Dr. Cappabianca is affiliated to various international societies: Società Italiana di Neurochirurgia (SINch), Associazione Italiana di Neuro-Oncologia (AINO),American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), Society of University Neurosurgeons (SUN), the Pituitary Society,European Association of Neurological Surgery (EANS), German Society of Skull Base Surgery, European Association of Neuro-Oncology (EANO), and Sociedad de Neurocirugia de Chile. He is an editorial board member for Neurosurgery, an international advisory board member for Acta Neurochirurgica, and senior editor of the peer-review board of World Neurosurgery.

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