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Contributing Authors
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Cerebrospinal Fluid: Physiology, Drainage, and Leakage 1
2 Perioperative Neurophysiologic Management 11
3 Neurosurgical Operative Positioning 27
4 Neurosurgical Instrumentation 35
5 Monitoring: Facial Nerve and Hearing 43
6 Monitoring: Somatosensory Evoked Potentials, Cranial Nerve, and Micro Doppler Sonography 61
7 Endovascular Diagnosis and Management 75
8 Complications in Skull Base Surgery: Prevention, Recognition, and Management 95
9 Neuroradiology 107
10 Miscellaneous Neurosurgical Techniques Relevant to the Otolaryngologist 131
11 Acoustic Neuromas: Translabyrinthine Approach 139
12 Hearing Preservation in Acoustic Neuroma Surgery 151
13 Nonacoustic Cerebellopontine Angle Lesions 163
14 Jugular Foramen Tumors 175
15 Contemporary Diagnosis and Management of Temporal Bone Encephalocele 189
16 Intracranial Complications of Infections Related to the Paranasal and Mastoid Sinuses 193
17 Contemporary Diagnosis and Management of Anterior Skull Base Cephalocele and Cerebrospinal Fluid Leaks 199
18 Pituitary Adenomas: Open Approaches 205
19 Pituitary: Endoscopic Transnasal Approach 215
20 Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy 223
21 Cervical Spine Trauma 231
22 Maxillofacial Trauma 253
23 Management of Temporal Bone Trauma 265
24 Acute Head Injury 279
25 Facial Disassembly 285
26 Optic Nerve Decompression 297
27 Head and Neck Neoplasms with Skull Base Involvement 309
28 Anterior Skull Base: The Neurosurgical Perspective 341
29 Vascular Lesions 349
30 Stereotactic Radiosurgery 361
31 Anterior Skull Base: Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Perspective 377
Subject Index 383