18 Extracranial Anterior Cranial Base Surgery for Vascular Tumors
Carl H. Snyderman Summary Vascular tumors of the head and neck include both benign and malignant neoplasms. In the head and neck region, paragangliomas are the most common vascular…
19 Extracranial Lateral Cranial Base Vascular Tumor Surgery
Sampath Chandra Prasad Rao and Ananth Chintapalli Summary The chapter deals with the pathophysology, anatomy, diagnostic workup, and intraoperative management of the extracranial vascular lesions of the lateral skull…
21 Neurophysiologic Monitoring and Its Role During Cerebrovascular Injury
Carla J.A. Ferreira, Katherine Anetakis, Donald J. Crammond, Jeffrey R. Balzer, and Parthasarathy D. Thirumala Summary Vascular injury is one of the most feared complications in skull base surgery…
15 Perforator Injury During Endoscopic Endonasal Skull Base Surgery
João Mangussi-Gomes, Matheus F. de Oliveira, Eduardo A. S. Vellutini, and Aldo C. Stamm Summary Perforators are especially prone to injury during endoscopic endonasal approaches (EEAs) due to their…
17 Endovascular Options to Treat Iatrogenic Vascular Injury and Tumor Involvement of the Skull Base
Jacob F. Baranoski, Colin J. Przybylowski, Bradley A. Gross, Felipe C. Albuquerque, and Andrew F. Ducruet Summary Internal carotid artery tumor encasement, concomitant aneurysms, and iatrogenic injury pose formidable…
16 Perforator Injury During Open Skull Base Surgery
Nicholas T. Gamboa and William T. Couldwell Summary The basal perforators comprise small direct arterial branches of the main cerebral vessels and supply the paramedian regions of the brainstem,…
14 Posterior Fossa During Open Skull Base Surgery
David L. Penn, Marte Van Keulen, and Nicholas C. Bambakidis Summary In any skull base operation where the operative corridor can be small, deep, and poorly lit, any major…
13 Dealing with Vascular Injury During Middle Fossa Surgery
Rami O. Almefty, Michael Mooney, and Ossama Al-Mefty Summary Vascular injury is one of the most feared complications of skull base surgery with potentially devastating ischemic or hemorrhagic consequences….
12 Vascular Challenges in Anterior Skull Base Open Surgery
Vinayak Narayan and Anil Nanda Summary A variety of standard microsurgical approaches and techniques have been developed over decades to deal with anterior skull base pathologies. The most feared…
11 Dealing with Major Vascular Injuries During Endonasal Posterior Fossa Surgery
Pierre-Olivier Champagne, Thibault Passeri, Eduard Voormolen, Anne-Laure Bernat, Rosaria Abbritti, and Sébastien Froelich Summary Dealing with major vascular injury during endoscopic endonasal posterior fossa surgery can be fearsome and…
