Surgery of the posterior fossa

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Principles of Posterior Fossa Surgery provides an in-depth review of this complex surgical region, with detailed coverage of anatomy, pathology, imaging, disease-based management, and surgical approaches.

Written by a team of highly respected specialists, it will be a valued reference and refresher for clinicians who perform posterior fossa 4/5(1). This is a surgical step by step guidebook and atlas on all skull base surgery involving the middle and posterior fossa.

Both benign and malignant lesions are discussed. The sub temporal, translabyrinthein, petrosal, retromastoid, tectorial, endoscopic endonasal approaches occupy each chapter of the text.4/5(1).

1 Surgery of the Posterior Cranial Fossa: Historical Aspects Lissa C. Baird and Anil Nanda The earliest known surgeries performed on the cranium date as far back as prehistoric times. The vast majority of these, however, were performed on the cranial convexity.

The history of posterior fossa operations, as compared with the entire history of. Additional Physical Format: Online version: Surgery of the posterior fossa.

New York: Raven Press, © (OCoLC) Document Type: Book: All Authors / Contributors. This book describes the anatomy of the posterior fossa, together with the main associated surgical techniques, which are detailed in numerous photographs and step-by-step color book presents approaches and surgical techniques such as the trans-cerebellomedullary fissure approach and its variation to the fourth ventricle, as well as the cerebellomedullary cistern.

Medulloblastoma is the most common tumor of the posterior fossa in childhood, representing 15–20% of brain tumors in children and 30–40% of posterior fossa neoplasms [40].Medulloblastomas usually arise in the midline within the vermis with growth into the fourth ventricle [41–46].This differs from adults and older children in which the tumor is found laterally in the cerebellar.

Posterior fossa AVMs are even more uncommon, and it can be roughly concluded that 1/10 of cerebral AVMs are located in the posterior fossa.

Location The posterior cranial fossa is the largest and deepest of the three cranial fossae, which extends from the tentorial incisura superiorly to the foramen magnum : Ferzat Hijazy, Mardjono Tjahjadi, Aruma O’shahinan, Hanna Lehto, Hugo Andrade, Behnam Rezai Jahromi. Skull Base Surgery of the Posterior Fossa will be of great utility to Neurosurgeons, Otolaryngologists, and Radiation Therapists with an interest in diseases that affect the posterior fossa, as well as Senior Residents in Neurosurgery and Otolaryngology, and Fellows of Skull Base Surgery and Otology.

This book describes the anatomy of the posterior fossa, together with the main associated surgical techniques, which are detailed in numerous photographs and step-by-step color book presents approaches and surgical techniques such as the trans-cerebellomedullary fissure approachBrand: Springer Japan.