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Borba, Luis A. B. et al.: 2021 Microsurgical and Endoscopic Approaches to the Skull Base DOI: 10.1055/b-0041-182747
Section V Anterolateral Approaches

26 Anterolateral Skull Base: Anatomy, Surgical Technique, and Nuances

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Editors: Borba, Luis A. B.; de Oliveira, Jean G.

Authors: Ahmed, A. Karim; Almeida, Joao Paulo; Alzhrani, Gmaan A.; Aragón-Arreola, Jorge F.; Barbero, Juan Manuel Revuelta; Berumen, Enrique Lopez; Borghei-Ravazi, Hamid; Braga, Fernando Menezes; Burhan, Hira; Cabral, Gustavo Augusto Porto Sereno; Caffaratti, Guido; Campero, Alvaro; Cândido, Duarte N. C.; Carrau, Ricardo L.; Cassidy, Matthew; Castellanos, Alberto Manuel Ángeles; Catapano, Joshua S.; Ceccato, Guilherme Henrique Weiler; Centeno, Tomás Ries; Cerezo, Eugenio; Chakravarthi, Srikant; Chaudhary, Pramod; Cherian, Iype; Cohen, Alan R.; Colli, Benedicto Oscar; Couldwell, William T.; Dodson, Vincent; Eguiluz-Meléndez, Aldo G.; Elizalde, Ramiro López; Eloy, Jean Anderson; Felicio, Thiago Albonette; Felix, Vinod; Ferrarez, Carlos Eduardo Prata Fernandes; Ferreira, Mauro A. Tostes; Fernandez-Miranda, Juan C.; Filho, Miguel Giudicissi; Froelich, Sébastien; García, Martín Granados; Gardner, Paul A.; Gentili, Fred; Giacomelli, Richard; Goel, Atul; Gómez-Amador, Juan Luis; Gozal, Yair M.; Gondim, Guilherme Gozzoli Podolsky; Gusmão, Sebastião Nataniel Silva; Hanakita, Shunya; Hardesty, D. A.; Herrera, Daniel Londoño; Hsueh, Wayne D.; Joshi, Krishna C.; Jradi, Ahmed Al; Kadri, Paulo A. S.; Kafle, Prakash; Kalb, Samuel; Kalkmann, Gabriela F.; Kanaan, Imad N.; Karekezi, Claire; Kassam, Amin; Kovalev, Aleksandr Yurievich; Kshettry, Varun R.; Labidi, Moujahed; Landeiro, José Alberto; Lang, Michael J.; Lawton, Michael T.; Lem-Carrillo, Mónica; Liu, James K.; Longo-Calderón, Gabriel Mauricio; Lopez, Juan; Lovato, Renan M.; Majmundar, Neil; Marian-Magaña, Ricardo; Maluf, Felipe Bicalho; Martínez-Manrique, José de Jesús; Martins, Carolina; Martins, Warley; Markin, Egor S.; Méndez, Humberto Reyna; Monroy-Sosa, Alejandro; Mora, José Alfredo Espinosa; Mukherjee, Debraj; Munakomi, Sunil; Mura, Jorge; Nakaji, Peter; Narendrakumar, Veerasigamani; Nathal, Edgar; Nunes, Cristian Ferrareze; Oliveira, Marcelo Magaldi; Ortega-Porcayo, Luis Alberto; Otto, Bradley A.; Park, HunHo; Peres, Gabriel H.; Porras, Jose Luis; Prevedello, Daniel M.; Rassi, Marcio S.; Rassi-Neto, Aziz; Recinos, Pablo F.; Rehder, Roberta; Reis, Cassius Vinicius Correa dos; Reyes, Laura Matilde Ubaldo; Rhoton, Albert; Ribas, Eduardo Carvalhal; Ríos-Zermeño, Jorge; Rocha, Eder da Silva; Romano-Feinholz, Samuel; Ronconi, Daniel; Rosito, Diego Méndez; S., Vignesh; Sáenz, Amparo; Safarov, Aidar Kh.; Sagar, Soumya; Sanchez, Miguel M.; Shrestha, Sudeep; Silva, Izabel Eugênia Costa e; da Silveira, Roberto Leal; Snyderman, Carl H.; Socolovsky, Mariano; Spetzler, Robert F.; Sufianov, Rinat A.; Sufianov, Albert A.; Thingujam, Jagadish; Todeschini, Alexandre B.; Valença, Marcelo; Valencia-Ramos, Cristopher G.; Veiga, José Carlos Esteves; Vescan, Allan; Villalonga, Juan F.; Volovetz, Josephine; Wang, Eric W.; Watanabe, Kentaro; Wicks, Robert T.; Witterick, Ian; Yasuda, Alexandre; Zadeh, Gelareh; Zagzoog, Nirmeen; Zahrani, Abdulrahman Al; Zhao, Xiaochun; Zoli, M.

Title: Microsurgical and Endoscopic Approaches to the Skull Base

Subtitle: Anatomy, Tactics, and Techniques

Print ISBN: 9781626239661; Online ISBN: 9781684203772; Book DOI: 10.1055/b000000340

1. Edition © 2021. Thieme. All rights reserved.
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Subjects: Neurosurgery;Otorhinolaryngology, Phoniatrics, Audiology

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Iype Cherian, Hira Burhan, Eugenio Cerezo, Juan Lopez, Ahmed Al Jradi, Vinod Felix, Sunil Munakomi, Pramod Chaudhary, Prakash Kafle, Vignesh S., Jagadish Thingujam, and Sudeep Shrestha

Abstract

In this chapter, the authors have described in detail the surgical technique of anterolateral approaches to the skull base, with special focus to the ICA, cranial nerves and their anatomical nuances.

Key words

cavernous sinus - internal carotid artery - Dolenc approach - lateral skull base
 
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