This richly illustrated atlas, compiled by authors with extensive experience in the field, offers a step-by-step guide to the surgical treatment of tumors, and congenital diseases of the skull base and nasal sinuses. Particular attention is devoted to the various techniques employed for extirpation of tumors and reconstruction of the skull base and Paranasal Sinuses. In order to facilitate understanding of the different approaches, clear surgical illustrations are presented alongside the high-quality intraoperative photographs. Whenever appropriate, technical tips are provided and briefly discussed. This atlas will appeal to a broad audience of residents, fellows, and consultants in different fields of medicine, including surgeons (head and neck, neurosurgery, otolaryngology, plastic and reconstructive surgery, ophthalmology, maxillofacial surgery) and oncologists.
The Cranial Base.- Anterior Skull Base: Imaging.- Operating Room Setup in Skull Base Surgery.- Open Surgical Approaches to the Paranasal Sinuses.- The Subcranial Approach to the Anterior Skull Base.- Surgical Approaches to the Lateral Skull Base.- Approaches to the Parapharyngeal Space.- The Translabryinthine Approach to the Internal Auditory Canal and Cerebellopontine Angle.- Cancer of the Temporal Bone.- Endoscopic Approaches in Skull Base Surgery and Their Indications.- Combined Approaches to Complex Skull Base Tumors.- Microsurgical Reconstruction of Skull Base Defects.- Complications After Skull Base Surgery.
Professor Dan M. Fliss
has been nominated as Chairman of the Division of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck
Surgery, and Maxillofacial Surgery Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Faculty
of Medicine, Tel Aviv University and is a scientific staff member of the
Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital,
Toronto and The University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is also a teaching and
visiting professor in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia
and delivered the highly regarded Eugene N. Myers International Lecture on Head
and Neck Cancer in 2008. Professor Fliss is a past president of The Israel
Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery. He is an editorial board
member of several prestigious journals, including Head
and Neck and Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, and is on the
review board of six further journals. He is the author of some 160 clinical and
scientific articles and 18 chapters in textbooks.
Professor Ziv Gil MD PhD, is a Barbara S. Goodman Endowed Investigator (ICRF) and the
Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, and the
Head and Neck Center at Rambam Healthcare Campus, Haifa, Israel. Professor Gil
is the Director of the Aplied Cancer Research Laboratory at the Clinical
Research Institute at Rambam and a Senior Member of the Developmental Biology
and Cancer Research Program, the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research,
The Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. He is also a study section member
of the Israel Science Foundation, Israeli Cancer Research Association and the
Binational Israel-America Science foundation, and sits at the editorial boards
of the Head and Neck Journal, Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Skull Base
Journal, Operative Techniques in Otolaryngology and more. Dr. Gil is
the author of over 160 manuscripts and book chapters in basic science research and
medicine. His previous books include: Tumours of the
skull base and paranasal sinuses (Springer) and the Atlas of Head & Neck
Surgery (Jp Medical).
This richly illustrated atlas, compiled by authors with extensive experience in the field, offers a step-by-step guide to the surgical treatment of tumors, and congenital diseases of the skull base and nasal sinuses. Particular attention is devoted to the various techniques employed for extirpation of tumors and reconstruction of the skull base and Paranasal Sinuses. In order to facilitate understanding of the different approaches, clear surgical illustrations are presented alongside the high-quality intraoperative photographs. Whenever appropriate, technical tips are provided and briefly discussed. This atlas will appeal to a broad audience of residents, fellows, and consultants in different fields of medicine, including surgeons (head and neck, neurosurgery, otolaryngology, plastic and reconstructive surgery, ophthalmology, maxillofacial surgery) and oncologists.
Richly illustrated atlas offering a step-by-step guide to the surgical treatment of tumors, trauma, and congenital diseases of the skull base and nasal sinuses
Covers all the procedures most commonly employed in standard practice
An ideal guide for surgical trainees and mid-level practitioners in related fields, including otolaryngology, neurosurgery, maxillofacial surgery, and plastic surgery
