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Featuring nearly 800 illustrations--including 280 in full color--this comprehensive text/atlas details neurosurgical, otolaryngologic, and plastic surgery operative techniques for cranial base tumors. Coverage encompasses general techniques and instrumentation and site-specific and tumor-specific surgical approaches. Introductory sections review surgical anatomy, diagnostic imaging studies, balloon test occlusion, interventional neuroradiology, cerebral revascularization, anesthetic considerations, and electrophysiological monitoring. A methodical survey of recommended operative approaches and tumor types follows. The book also presents reconstructive and rehabilitative surgical procedures such as reanimation of the paralyzed face without facial nerve, construction of microvascular and regional flaps, skull base reconstruction using alloplastic materials, rehabilitation of swallowing, and central electroauditory prosthesis implantation. Note: A set of 250 full-color slides of illustrations from this book is also available.