Surgical Approach: Posterior Far-Lateral Suboccipital Approach
This chapter focuses on the relevant anatomy and the surgical technique of the far-lateral suboccipital approach. The original description of this approach was used for vertebral artery and vertebrobasilar junction aneurysms and for the removal of diverse
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EUROPEAN SECTION Founded 1983
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Cervical Spine Surgery: Standard and Advanced Techniques
Heiko Koller • Yohan Robinson Editors
Cervical Spine Surgery: Standard and Advanced Techniques Cervical Spine Research Society - Europe Instructional Surgical Atlas
Editors Heiko Koller Department of Neurosurgery Klinikum rechts der Isar Technische Universität München Munich Germany
Yohan Robinson Department of Orthopaedics Institute of Clinical Sciences Sahlgrenska Academy Gothenburg University Gothenburg Sweden
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Preface
During residency and fellowship training, most of us had a surgical atlas we consulted for planning and technical understanding of the procedures performed. This surgical atlas was our best friend: it provided consolation before difficult approaches and gave us confidence in communication with other surgeons, and we sometimes went literally to bed with it. Subspecializing in cervical spine surgery, we lost this friend. Suddenly, we had no surgical atlas anymore. The techniques were so specialized, and the case load for certain procedures is so rare that no comprehensive surgical atlas has been written so far. While in surgical solitude, we found in the Cervical Spine Research Society a soulmate. The CSRS-Europe—founded in 1983 as a subsection of the North American CSRS—had rapidly become the educator in cervical spine surgery techniques. The biannual CSRS-Europe cadaveric dissection cour