Overview
- Multi-disciplinary collaborative description of standard operative procedures
- Step-by-step surgical guide with special focus on the basic steps of each approach
- Each step is presented by full color illustrations with concise text
Part of the book series: Springer Surgery Atlas Series (SPRISURGERY)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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About this book
'Skull Base Surgery' represents genuinely multi-disciplinary collaborative approach to the standard procedures in skull base surgery. It emphasizes the basic operative steps of each approach and describes variations from the basic approach. Authors from the relevant specialties Neurosurgery, Otolaryngology, Maxillo-Facial Surgery and Plastic Surgery contribute to this new specialty of skull base surgery.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
He was active in organising this new multidisciplinary specialty. In 1988 he was a founder member of the International Skull Base Society, and this subsequently morphed into the World Federation of Skull Base Societies. As its Honorary Secretary for eight years, he was active in formulating a constitution that was acceptable to the various specialties and resulted in a rotating International Conference every four years.He is proud to be one of the founders of Skull Base Surgery and has encouraged its development as a collaborative multidisciplinary specialty.
Mr Ian Sabin is a Consultant Neurosurgeon based in London. He is the Medical Director of the London Gamma Knife Centre at the Wellington Hospital. Mr Sabin was appointed to his first post as a Consultant Neurosurgeon in 1992 at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, after training in Edinburgh and London (Queen Square) during which he completed research into monitoring during skull base surgery. He has completed additional specialist training in Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery in Pittsburgh, Stockholm, Marseille and for Cyber Knife radiosurgery in California. HIs main surgical interest is skull base surgery, using a combination of open surgery and radiosurgery where appropriate. He was the neurosurgical tutor to the Royal College of Surgeons of England for 10 years, a member of the Court of Examiners and a member of the Specialist Advisory Committee for neurosurgery. After 38 years working in the NHS, he now works full-time in London's largest private hospital, The Wellington.
Professor Ghassan Alusi is a senior consultant Otolaryngologist & Head and Neck Surgeon at Barts and The London NHS Trust, and Honorary Consultant Surgeon, University College Hospital. He hasa special interest in complex skull base/sinus surgery and rhinoplasty, laryngology, complex head and neck surgery and thyroid disorders. He is an Honorary Clinical Professor at Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry where his research is in Oncology and inflammation. He is a co-director of the Head and Neck Academic Centre, UCL where he holds an honorary clinical professorship. He is involved in research into image guided surgery, for which he was awarded a PhD by Leicester University.He has an active research programme in oncolytic viruses for the treatment of cancer and gene therapy, focusing on gene delivery and the identification of novel therapeutic options.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Skull Base Surgery
Editors: Anthony Cheesman, Ghassan Alusi, H. Ian Sabin
Series Title: Springer Surgery Atlas Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74259-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-74257-9Published: 30 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-74259-3Published: 29 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2626-9015
Series E-ISSN: 2626-9023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 92
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 143 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neurosurgery, Otorhinolaryngology, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Neuroradiology