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This volume collects anatomic dissections organized to present relevant fundamental information concerning surgical anatomy and structural connections. Fossett and Caputy (neurosurgery, The George Washington U.) present 43 chapters by 14 contributors that discuss and illustrate (with three-dimensional color images) anatomic specimens oriented in the operative position and dissected using standard surgical approaches. Topics are divided into indications for approach; positioning and skin incision; surgical technique; pitfalls, pearls and considerations; and suggested readings. They cover cranial, spinal and peripheral nerve approaches, and neuroendoscopy. Numerous color images support the text. Oversize: 9.25x12.25.Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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George Washington Univ., Washington, DC. Collection of anatomic dissections organized to present anatomic relationships based on standard operative neurosurgical approaches. Each chapter defines the pathologic indications and the constraints of the surgical approach. Sections include cranial, spinal, peripheral nerve, and neuroendoscopy. DNLM: Neurosurgical Procedures.

Presents neurosurgical anatomy by detailing approaches on cadavers in the same position patients would be placed in during a real operative procedure. Anatomy is described in: 1) all commomnly used cranial and cranial base approaches, 2) anterior, posterior, anterolateral and posterolateral approaches to all segments of the spinal, 3) all commonly performed procedures on peripheral nerves, and 4) edoscopic approaches to cranial and spinal neurosurgery. Stresses the understanding of the anatomy rather then the performance of the procedure.

Contributors vii
Foreword viii
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi

I. Cranial Approaches
1 Specimen Preparation
2 Frontotemporal Approach 4
3 Cranio-orbital and Orbitozygomatic 11
4 The Anterior Communicating Complex and Heubner’s Artery 18
5 Sylvian Fissure Anatomy and the Transylvian 23
6 Transbasal 27
7 Transphenoidal Approach 32
8 Cavernous Sinus Anatomy 37
9 Surgical Approaches to the Cavernous Sinus 46
10 Preauricular Subtemporal-Infratemporal 52
11 Middle Fossa Approach 61

12 Transpetrosal Approach 67
13 Retrosigmoid Craniotomy 81
14 Midline and Paramedian Suboccipital 86
15 Extreme Lateral Approach 90
16 Approaches to the Posterior Third Ventricule and Pineal 100
17 Interhemispheric Approach 107
18 Frontal 111
19 Occipital 113
20 Temporal Lobectomy for 115

II. Spinal Approaches
21 Vertebral Column 121
22 Transoral Approach to the Upper Cervical 127
23 Anterior Approach to the Cervical Spine 130
24 Posterior Cervical Approach 135
25 Posterior Approach to the Thoracic 138
26 Dorsolateral Approaches to the Thoracic Spine 141
27 Ventrolateral Approach to the Thoracic 145
28 Lumbar Laminectomy and 148
29 Far Lateral Lumbar Discectomy 152
30 Retroperitoneal Approach to the Lumbar 154

III. Peripheral Nerve Approaches
31 Carpal Tunnel 157
32 Radial Nerve Decompression 161
33 Ulnar Nerve Decompression and Transposition 163
34 Anterior Exposure of the Brachial 166
35 Thoracic Outlet 170
36 Suprascapular Nerve 172
37 Surgical Decompression of the Lateral Femoral Cutaneous 174
38 Sciatic Nerve 176
39 Sural Nerve Biopsy 178

IV. Neuroendoscopy
40 Minimally Invasive Supraorbital Craniotomy 181
41 Minimally Invasive Subtemporal Craniotomy 189
42 Endoscopic Intraventricular Anatomy 194
43 Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy 201

Index 203