Middle Fossa Craniotomy
16 Middle Fossa Craniotomy Jose N. Fayad and Derald E. Brackmann William House refined the middle fossa approach in 1961.1 Initially, he used this approach to decompress the internal auditory…
Surgical Management of Petroclival Tumors
12 Surgical Management of Petroclival Tumors Carl B. Heilman, Vasilios A. Zerris, and Carlos A. David Petroclival meningiomas are among the most difficult cranial base lesions to treat. They are…
Management of Posterior Cranial Fossa Pathology: Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
18 Management of Posterior Cranial Fossa Pathology: Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Vijayakumar Javalkar, Federico Ampil, and Anil Nanda Radiosurgery is a minimally invasive technique designed to deliver a high dose of…
Congenital Chiari Malformations
6 Congenital Chiari Malformations Vijayakumar Javalkar and Anil Nanda Chiari malformations include a group of complex anomalies of the hindbrain with different etiology, pathophysiology, and clinical feature. These malformations range…
Approaches and Management of Basilar Tip Aneurysms
20 Approaches and Management of Basilar Tip Aneurysms Brian L. Hoh and Christopher S. Ogilvy Aneurysms of the basilar artery apex carry the highest natural history risk of rupture of…
Shunt Surgery for Posterior Fossa Lesions
24 Shunt Surgery for Posterior Fossa Lesions Prasad Vannemreddy, Anirban Banerjee, and Brian Willis Numerous forms of treatment have been suggested and tried, but, as the number of methods indicates,…
Trauma to the Temporal Bone
7 Trauma to the Temporal Bone Prasad Vannemreddy and Anil Nanda Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring (1755–1830), a German medical student, established the present classification of cranial nerves in 12 numbered…
Neurosurgical Pathology of the Posterior Fossa
4 Neurosurgical Pathology of the Posterior Fossa Marjorie Fowler Diverse types of pathology occur in the posterior fossa. The specific pathologic lesion is diagnosed based on the location of the…
Neurologic Entities of the Posterior Fossa
5 Neurologic Entities of the Posterior Fossa Roger E. Kelley and Alireza Minagar The posterior fossa contains the brainstem and cerebellum. The brainstem houses all the cranial nerve nuclei and…
Sympathetic Nerve Block and Neurolysis
Chapter 10 Sympathetic Nerve Block and Neurolysis Chul-Joong Lee, MD, PhD, Sang-Chul Lee, MD, PhD Sympathetic nerve block may relieve pain by several mechanisms. One possible mechanism is interruption of…
