Midline Skull Base Surgery
This richly illustrated book offers detailed, step-by-step guidance on surgical approaches and techniques in patients with midline tumors of the skull base. Access routes are described from both endoscopic and microscopic standpoints, via different approa
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Midline Skull Base Surgery
Paolo Cappabianca • Luigi Maria Cavallo Oreste de Divitiis • Felice Esposito Editors
Midline Skull Base Surgery
Editors Paolo Cappabianca Division of Neurosurgery Department of Neurosciences Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences University of Naples “Federico II” Naples Italy Luigi Maria Cavallo Division of Neurosurgery Department of Neurosciences Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences University of Naples “Federico II” Naples Italy
Oreste de Divitiis Division of Neurosurgery Department of Neurosciences Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences University of Naples “Federico II” Naples Italy Felice Esposito Division of Neurosurgery Department of Neurosciences University of Messina Messina Italy
ISBN 978-3-319-21532-7 ISBN 978-3-319-21533-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-21533-4
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Preface
Understand before you take any decision. Learn. Know. Then use the proper indications, the proper technique, the proper instruments.
Pier Paolo Pasolini, an Italian anti-conformist intellectual of great stature, stated that it is mandatory to revivify tradition in order to reinforce it, seldom antagonizing it with new ideas. This dictum perfectly suits the revolution that endoscopy has brought about within the fields of cerebral and ventricular neurosurgery during the past 30 years. The endoscope is an instrument which, thanks to the intimate, close-up views that it affords, has contributed in expanding knowledge and in unlocking areas (e.g., the cavernous sinuses) and pathologies (e.g., craniopharyngiomas) in which progress was very much needed. This tremendous boost, however, did not mark the en
