Skull Base Surgery of the Posterior Fossa

Skull Base Surgery of the Posterior Fossa William T. Couldwell Editor 123 ...

Skull Base Surgery of the Posterior Fossa ...

William T. Couldwell Editor Skull Base Surgery of the Posterior Fossa ...

ISBN 978-3-319-67037-9 ISBN 978-3-319-67038-6 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67038- Library of Congress Control Numbe ...

v Contents Part I Introduction 1 Surgical Anatomy of the Posterior Fossa.................. 3 Jaafar Basma and Jeffrey Sorenson P ...

vi 9 Tentorial Meningiomas................................. 115 Hiroki Morisako, Takeo Goto, and Kenji Ohata 10 Foramen Magnum M ...

vii Olaide O. Ajayi, MD Swedish Neuroscience Institute, Seattle, WA, USA Ossama Al-Mefty, MD Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham ...

viii Randy L. Jensen, MD, PhD Department of Oncological Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, UT, USA Department ...

ix Robert F. Spetzler, MD Department of Neurosurgery, Barrow Neurological Institute, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, P ...

Part I Introduction ...

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4 also forms the posterior wall of the sella turcica (dorsum sella). The lateral walls of the posterior fossa are formed by the ...

5 Fig. 1.1 Posterior fossa osseous and dural enclosure. (a) Superior view of the skull base. The posterior fossa is enclosed by ...

6 from the junction of the superior petrosal, basilar, and cavernous sinuses anteriorly (Fig. 1.2a). Thus, the superior and infe ...

7 Fig. 1.2 Jugular foramen and skull base venous sinuses. (a) Posterior view. Venous drainage from the cavernous sinus and basil ...

8 mids, the inferior olive is bounded by the preolivary sulcus, where the hypoglossal root- lets emerge. Cranial nerves IX, X, a ...

9 branches of the vertebrobasilar system (Fig. 1.3). The vertebral arteries pierce the posterior fossa dura medial to the occipi ...

Fig. 1.5 Surgical views from posterior approaches. (a) The occipital transtentorial approaches exploit the corri- dor between th ...

11 Three pairs of cerebellar arteries arise from the vertebrobasilar system. The course of the cere- bellar arteries often inclu ...

12 the temporal bone and turns vertically into the carotid sulcus of the sphenoid, which is flanked laterally by the lingual pro ...