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Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery

A Comprehensive Guide with Illustrative Cases

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  • © 2008

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Authors:
  1. Hrayr K. Shahinian

    1. Skull Base Institute, Los Angeles, USA

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  • Contains over six hundred high resolution color images
  • Provides detailed surgical instructions, fully illustrated
  • Catalogues the cutting-edge surgeries of the world renowned Skull Base Institute
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-3

  3. Anesthetic Considerations in Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery

    Pages 5-9

  4. Neuroendocrine Aspects of Skull Base Surgery

    Pages 11-19

  5. Interventional Neuroradiology Aspects of Skull Base Surgery

    Pages 21-27

  6. Instrumentation in Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery

    Pages 29-41

  7. The Fully Endoscopic Endonasal Approach

    Pages 43-71

  8. The Fully Endoscopic Transglabellar Approach

    Pages 73-88

  9. The Fully Endoscopic Supraorbital Approach

    Pages 89-107

  10. The Fully Endoscopic Retrosigmoid Approach

    Pages 109-171

  11. The Fully Endoscopic Subtemporal Approach

    Pages 173-187

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 189-193
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About this book

I am honored to be asked to write a foreword to this comprehensive and fascinating book on skull base surgery (SBS) by Dr. Shahinian, who I consider among the pioneers in the field. I should start by writing a disclaimer. I first met Dr. Shahinian when he was a brilliant surgical resident at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 1986. Over the next several years, I had the pleasure of following his career through different training rotations in the United States and abroad. I remember well when he told me that skull base surgery was his career choice. I thought it was a high-risk career move considering that the discipline was still in its early development. As a result, I was quite gratified to follow Dr. Shahinian’s professional success as he developed the Skull Base Institute, initially in New York, and later in Los Angeles. I would like to first define SBS from my perspective as a general surgeon. SBS denotes a group of operations involving the base of the skull or its contents. The skull base is divided into an anterior (attached to the facial skeleton), middle, and posterior areas. Vital arteries, veins, as well as cranial nerves pass through the skull base. Consequently, this part of the skull has historically been the most difficult to access, and lesions of the skull base were often associated with a poor prognosis.

Reviews

From the reviews:

"This multidisciplinary surgical atlas describes endoscopic approaches for selected skull base pathologies and provides a framework for applying these techniques by detailing important considerations such as room set-up, patient positioning, and instrument selection. … It is primarily written for experienced neurosurgeons, endoscopic sinus surgeons, and/or head and neck surgeons who seek to extend their capabilities at managing often-complicated pathologies with decreased morbidity." (Rakesh K Chandra, Doody’s Review Service, February, 2008)

"The endoscopic approach is becoming increasingly popular and we in plastic surgery must keep in touch with what is happening. This book is coauthored by a neuroradiologist, an endocrinologist, an anesthesiologist, and an interventional neuroradiologist. … This in itself makes it an interesting publication. … For plastic surgeons involved in skull base surgery, this book is worth an investment for the library." (Ian Jackson, European Journal of Plastic Surgery, Vol. 31, 2008)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Skull Base Institute, Los Angeles, USA

    Hrayr K. Shahinian

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery

  • Book Subtitle: A Comprehensive Guide with Illustrative Cases

  • Authors: Hrayr K. Shahinian

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-340-0

  • Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Humana Press 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-58829-814-0Published: 04 January 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-61737-790-7Published: 10 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-59745-340-0Published: 26 April 2008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 193

  • Number of Illustrations: 117 b/w illustrations, 615 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Neurosurgery, Oncology, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Otorhinolaryngology

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