BookNicholas C. Bambakidis, Cliff A. Megerian, Robert E. Spetzler, editors.
Summary: Now in a fully revised and expanded second edition, this book remains the gold standard guide to the surgical treatment of diseases in the cerebellopontine angle (CPA), the fragile area of the skull base that Harvey Cushing famously described as "the bloody angle." This edition combines current information on the relevant clinical diseases of the CPA with dramatically improved surgical management of its diseases, arranged in five thematic sections. The first section presents the basis and rationale for treatment, including historical perspectives, microsurgical anatomy, relevant radiology and neurology. Part two is composed of chapters on surgical approaches, and parts three and four provide detailed descriptions of surgical management techniques for vestibular schwannomas and non schwannomatous lesions, respectively. The final section provides 21 distinct clinical cases with associated video segments, demonstrating the approaches and techniques in real time. With images courtesy of the renowned Barrow Neurological Institute, Surgery of the Cerebellopontine Angle, Second Edition is a boon resource for expert specialists in neurosurgery, neurotology, neuroradiology, otolaryngology/head and neck surgery, and endovascular surgery.
Contents:
Part I. Foundations for Treatment
Historical Perspectives
Microsurgical Anatomy of the Cerebellopontine Angle and Its Suboccipital Retromastoid Approaches
Radiology
Neurology
Part II. Surgical Approaches
Approaches to the Cerebellopontine Angle
Combined Surgical Approaches
Functional Surgery of the Cerebellopontine Angle
Endoscopy in the Cerebellopontine Angle
Part III. Vestibular Schwannomas
Biology and Genetics of Vestibular Schwannomas in Tumors of the Cerebellopontine Angle
Treatment Options for Acoustic Neuroma, Including Stereotactic Radiosurgery
Translabyrinthine Approach
Hearing Rehabilitation Following Acoustic Neuroma Surgery
Acoustic Neuroma Surgery: Retrosigmoid Techniques
Acoustic Neuroma Surgery: The Middle Fossa Approach
Complications and Cranial Nerve Rehabilitation
Facial Reanimation
Hearing and Surgical Considerations in Neurofibromatosis Type 2
Prevention and Management of Postoperative Cerebrospinal Fluid Leakage
Part IV. Nonschwannomatous Lesions of the CPA
Temporal Bone Neoplasms
Congenital Rest Lesions and Rare Tumors
Vascular Lesions of the Cerebellopontine Angle
Part V. Cases and Approaches (animations and videos)
Case 1: Retrosigmoid Approach for Vestibular Schwannoma
Case 2: Combined Transpetrosal Approach with Hearing Preservations for Resection of a Meningioma
Case 3: Far-Lateral Approach for a Foramen Magnum Meningioma
Case 4: Resection of an Acoustic Schwannoma Complicated by Tumor Encasement of the Anterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery Using a Translabyrinthine Approach
Case 5: Transcondylar Approach for Giant Aneurysm with Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery Bypass
Case 6: Far-Lateral Approach for a Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery Aneurysm Clipping
Case 7: Right Retrosigmoid Craniotomy for Microvascular Decompression for Trigeminal Neuralgia (Endoscope-Assisted)
Case 8: Right Retrosigmoid Craniotomy for Microvascular Decompression of Hemifacial Spasm
Case 9: Left Retrosigmoid Craniotomy for Microvascular Decompression of Glossopharyngeal Neuralgia
Case 10: Anterior Transpetrosal Approach for Resection of Petroclival Meningioma
Case 11: Vestibular Schwannoma Resection with Facial Nerve Displaced Dorsally
Case 12: Right Retrosigmoid Craniotomy for Pontine Cavernous Malformation
Case 13: Lateral Transcondylar Craniotomy for PICA Aneurysm
Case 14: Left Retrosigmoid Approach in Large Vestibular Schwannoma in Patient with NF2
Case 15: Retrosigmoid Approach for a Left-sided Trigeminal Schwannoma
Case 16: Retrosigmoid Approach to Right-sided Epidermoid Cyst
Case 17: Translabrynthine Transtemporal Approach for Left Vestibular Schwannoma
Case 18: Middle Cranial Fossa Craniotomy for a Left Petrous Apex Lesion
Case 19: Extended Translabyrinthine Approach for Left-sided Vestibular Schwannoma
Case 20: Right-sided Retrosigmoid Approach to Small Vestibular Schwannoma
Case 21: Transotic Approach to Left-sided Jugular Paraganglioma/Glomus Tumor for Partial Debulking
Appendix: Anatomic Dissection.