Atlas of Endoscopic Anatomy for Endonasal Intracranial Surgery /

It is only recently that the use of the endoscope as the sole visualizing tool has been introduced in transsphenoidal pituitary surgery with its favorable related implications and minimal operative trauma. Of course, microscopic and endoscopic anatomy are basically the same, but the optical distorsi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cappabianca, Paolo
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Alfieri, Alessandra, Divitiis, Enrico, Tschabitscher, Manfred
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2001.
Subjects:	Medicine. Human anatomy. Medical radiology. Nervous system > Surgery. Otolaryngology. Endoscopic surgery. Surgery. Radiology, Medical. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction Equipment specification
Anatomic preparations: Gross anatomy: Bone preparations, Nose and paranasal sinuses; Endoscopic surgical anatomy: Nose, Sphenoidal sinus, Sella turcica region, Suprasellar region, Parasellar region, Retrosellar region
Preoperative management: Neuroradiological investigations: CT, MRI; Operating theatre: Positioning of the patient, Equipment
Surgical procedure: Surgical steps: Endonasal approach to the sphenoidal sinus ostium, Enlargement of the sphenoidal sinus ostium, Preparation of the sphenoid sinus, Opening of the floor of the sella turcica, Opening of the dura mater, Removal of the lesion, Sella turcica reconstruction
Appendix: Selected clinical cases: Intra-suprasellar macroadenoma, Intra-parasellar macroadenoma, Solid intra-suprasellar craniopharyngeoma, Cystic intra-suprasellar craniopharyngeoma, Arachnoid intra-suprasellar cyst; Intra-suprasellar RATHKEs cleft cyst
References
Index.