Rowan Valentine and Peter-John Wormald Summary Vascular injury is perhaps the most challenging complication of skull base surgery to manage. Given that most skull base pathologies are centered around…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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….
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…
