Minimal Access Skull Base Surgery
Open and Endoscopic Assisted Approaches

Minimal Access Skull Base Surgery ? Open and Endoscopic Assisted Approaches is a highly illustrated guide to a range of approaches in ENT surgery, edited by Kofi Boahene and Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa from the John Hopkins Medical Institute, Baltimore, USA. The book focuses on minimal access approaches to skull base compartments using an endoscope, via natural and secondary openings into the head.

Comprised of 31 chapters, across seven sections, the book begins with a general introductory section which covers imaging of the skull base, surgical pathology of the skull base and anaesthetic requirements for skull base surgery. Further sections cover approaches to surgery via particular anatomical areas, including transorbital, supraorbital, transnasal, infratemporal fossa, and transoral approaches. The concluding sections cover the management of selected skull base lesions, skull base reconstruction and postoperative management.

Minimal Access Skull Base Surgery ? Open and Endoscopic Assisted Approaches is enhanced by 428 images and illustrations and an accompanying DVD featuring practical guidance on several procedures. This is an essential resource for neurosurgeons, otolaryngologists, head and neck surgeons, and any health care providers involved in these minimal access procedures.

Key Points

• Comprehensive guide to minimal access procedures in skull base surgery
• Covers minimal access skull base surgery via nose, mouth, eye socket and infratemporal fossa
• 428 images and illustrations
• Instructional DVD for several skull base procedures
• Edited Kofi Boahene and Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa based at John Hopkins Medical Institute, Baltimore, USA

General

• The ‘Dilemma’ of Modern Skull Base Surgery: Selecting the Correct Approach
• Imaging of the Skull Base
• Surgical Pathology of the Skull Base
• Anesthetic Requirements and Pearls for Skull Base Surgery

Transorbital and Supraorbital Approaches

• Anatomy of the Orbit for Trans Orbital Skull Base Surgery
• Trans Orbital Neuro Endoscopic Access to the Anterior Skull Base
• Trans Palpebral Orbitofrontal Approach to Intracranial Skull Base Lesions
• Supraorbital Keyhole Approach
• Endoscopic Decompression of the Orbital Apex

Transnasal Approaches

• Endoscopic Anatomy for Trans Nasal Skull Base Surgery
• Endoscopic Assisted Endonasal Trans Cribriform Approach to Skull Base Lesions
• Endoscopic Endonasal Transsphenoidal and Transplanum Approach
• Endoscopic Endonasal Transpterygoid Approaches
• Trans Nasal Endoscopic-Assisted Approach to the Mid-Cranial Base and Infratemporal Fossa
• Endoscopic Approaches to Lesions in the Sinus
• Endoscopic Approaches to Lesions in the Petrous Apex
• Trans Nasal Endoscopic-Assisted Approach to Clivus and Craniocervical Junction

Transoral Approaches

• Transoral Endoscopic Surgical Anatomy of the Parapharyngeal and Infratemporal Fossa
• Endoscopic- Assisted Para Mandibular Approach to Infratemporal Fossa and Parapharyngeal Space
• Evolution of Transoral Robotic Assisted Approaches to the Skull Base

Management of Selected Skull Base Lesions

• Endoscopic Transsphenoidal Approach to Pituitary Lesions
• Mini-Orbitofrontal and Endoscopic Approaches to Frontal Sinus Inverted Papilloma
• Trans Palpebral Orbitocranial Approach to Olfactory Grove Meningioma
• Transpalpebral Orbitocranial Approach to Sella and Suprasellar Pituitary Adenoma
• Endoscopic- Assisted Resection of Juvenile Nasal Angiofibroma
• Transnasal Endoscopic Assisted Management of Cerebrosp8nal Fluid Leak and Menigocele
• Transorbital Endoscopic-Assisted  Management of Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak
• Endonasal Endoscopic Management of Clival Chordoma
• Mini Craniotomy Management of Superior Canal Dehiscence

Skull Base Reconstruction and Postoperative Management

• Skull Base Reconstruction
• Management of Complications Associated With Endoscopic Assisted Skullbase Surgery

 DVD Contents

• Supraorbital Approach for Resection of Squamous Cell Carcinoma
• Transpalpebral Orbitofrontal Approach to Suprasellar and other Anterior Cranial Base Lesions
• Endonasal Transcribiform Resection of a Recurrent Meningioma
• Endonasal Repair of an Encephalocele of the Cribriform Plate
• Endonasal Decompression and Repair of Traumatic Optic Neuropathy
• Endonasal Transpterygoid Resection of a Mass in the Cavernous Sinus
• Robotic-assisted Resection of a Right Parapharyngeal Mass

Kofi BoaheneMD FACS
Associate Professor, Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa MD FAANS FACS
Professor of Neurological Surgery, Oncology, Neuroscience and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Director, Brain Tumor Surgery Program, Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospital, Director, Pituitary Surgery Program, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA