Dealing with Vascular Injury During Middle Fossa Surgery
13 Dealing with Vascular Injury During Middle Fossa Surgery Rami O. Almefty, Michael Mooney, and Ossama Al-Mefty Summary Vascular injury is one of the most feared complications of skull base…
Endovascular Options to Treat Iatrogenic Vascular Injury and Tumor Involvement of the Skull Base
17 Endovascular Options to Treat Iatrogenic Vascular Injury and Tumor Involvement of the Skull Base Jacob F. Baranoski, Colin J. Przybylowski, Bradley A. Gross, Felipe C. Albuquerque, and Andrew F….
Bypass in the Treatment of Skull Base Tumors
5 Bypass in the Treatment of Skull Base Tumors Laligam N. Sekhar, Ananth K. Vellimana, and Zeeshan Qazi Summary Cerebral revascularization for skull base tumors represents a complex subset of…
Vascular Anatomy of the Head and Neck/Circle of Willis
1 Vascular Anatomy of the Head and Neck/Circle of Willis* Aneek Patel, Hussam Abou-Al-Shaar, Maximiliano A. Nuñez, Georgios A. Zenonos, Paul A. Gardner, and Juan C. Fernandez-Miranda Summary This chapter…
Perforator Injury During Open Skull Base Surgery
16 Perforator Injury During Open Skull Base Surgery Nicholas T. Gamboa and William T. Couldwell Summary The basal perforators comprise small direct arterial branches of the main cerebral vessels and…
Vascular Challenges in Anterior Skull Base Open Surgery
12 Vascular Challenges in Anterior Skull Base Open Surgery Vinayak Narayan and Anil Nanda Summary A variety of standard microsurgical approaches and techniques have been developed over decades to deal…
Dealing with Major Vascular Injuries During Endonasal Posterior Fossa Surgery
11 Dealing with Major Vascular Injuries During Endonasal Posterior Fossa Surgery Pierre-Olivier Champagne, Thibault Passeri, Eduard Voormolen, Anne-Laure Bernat, Rosaria Abbritti, and Sébastien Froelich Summary Dealing with major vascular injury…
Supracerebellar Transtentorial Approach
48 Supracerebellar Transtentorial Approach Jean G. de Oliveira, Paulo A. S. Kadri, Aziz Rassi-Neto, Renan M. Lovato, José Carlos Esteves Veiga, and Luis A. B. Borba Abstract The supracerebellar transtentorial…
Pretemporal Approach
27 Pretemporal Approach Jean G. de Oliveira, Paulo A. S. Kadri, Richard Giacomelli, Fernando Menezes Braga, and Luis A. B. Borba Abstract The pretemporal approach is a combination of the…
Far-Lateral Approach and Its Variants
40 Far-Lateral Approach and Its Variants Marcio S. Rassi, Duarte N. C. Cândido, Guilherme Henrique Weiler Ceccato, Jean G. de Oliveira, and Luis A. B. Borba Abstract Lesions at the…
