Tumors of the skull base : : Extra- and intracranial surgery of skull base tumors / / ed. by H. Scheunemann, J. Helms, K. Schürmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Medicine and Life Sciences - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: Arnold, H.,; Bock, W.J.,; Brugge, K. Ter,; Carini, S.,; Denecke, H.J.,; Dimitriadis, A.S.,; Draf, W.,; Estonillo, R.,; Ey, W.,; Frowein, R. A.,; Gerhardt, H.J.,; Gillissen, J.P.A.,; Grote, E.,; Halves, E.,; Heiss, E.,; Helms, J.,; Herrmann, H.-D.,; Hinkelbein, W.,; Jahnke, K.,; Jansen, C.,; Jomin, M.,; Knosp, E.,; Knüfermann, H.,; Köning, W.,; Lang, J.,; Lasjaunias, P.,; Lesoin, F.,; Lozes, G.,; Löblich, H.J.,; Manolidis, L.,; Miles, J.B.,; Nover, A.,; Pellerin, P.,; Perneczky, A.,; Pinedo, H. M.,; Reuther, J.,; Richter, W.,; Rios-Nogales Garces, L. A.,; Rochels, R.,; Romeu, J.,; Roosen, N.,; Samii, M.,; Schmelzte, R.,; Schwenzer, N.,; Schürmann, K.,; Sekhar, L. N.,; Servato, R.,; Shaheen, O.H.,; Snow, G. B.,; Stell, P.M.,; Strohm, M.,; Traserra, J.,; Vermorken, J. B.,; Vollmar, J.F.,; Wannenmacher, M.,; Weidenbecher, M.,; Wilcke, O.,
• HerausgeberIn: Helms, J.,; Scheunemann, H.,; Schürmann, K.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©1986
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: Reprint 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (IX, 256 p.)

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- I. Anatomy and neuroradiology of the skull base related to tumor surgery -- Topographical anatomy of the skull base and adjacent tissues -- Tumors of the skull base. The role of the diagnostic and therapeutic angiography -- Echographical diagnosis of orbital tumors -- II. Anterior skull base tumors -- Orbital tumors involving the skull base -- Esthesioneuroblastoma -- Juvenile angiofibroma -- Malignant tumors of the paranasal sinuses -- Malignant maxillofacial tumors and the skull base - operative procedures and prosthetic management -- Radiotherapy of the skull base -- Present role of chemotherapy in the treatment of head and neck cancer -- Transmaxillary and transoral approach to invasive tumors of the skull base -- Transoral approaches for tumor operations on the skull base -- Diagnosis - combined treatment of nasopharyngeal angiofibroma -- Extension of nasopharyngeal tumors to the posterior region of the skull base -- Sudden blindness by an esthesioneuroblastoma - case report -- Bifrontal meningioma of the skull base -- Surgical reconstruction of the Eustachian tube -- III. Middle and posterior skull base tumors -- Petroclival and medial tentorial meningiomas -- Surgical concepts in malignant tumors of the lateral skull base -- Intratemporal neurinomas of the facial nerve and epidermoids of the petrous bone -- The intracavernous connective tissue cover of the internal carotid artery - anatomy and surgery -- Rare lesions of the parasellar area -- The fate of glomus tympanicum tumors after surgical and radiological treatment -- The place of "salvage" petrosectomy -- Transtemporal-infratemporal approach to the skull base -- Skull base chordoma - neurosurgical problems -- Transclival transcervical approach to the upper cervical spine and clivus -- Interdisciplinary approach to benign tumors of the lateral skull base -- Vascular problems of the carotid artery and reconstructive procedures -- The diagnosis and operative strategy of large glomus tumors -- Rehabilitation of swallowing following paresis of the caudal cranial nerves -- List of contributors -- Authors' index -- Authors' index -- Backmatter