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Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery

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Cranial base surgery is the surgical discipline that deals with disease processes that affect the skull base or related tissues. These include developmental, inflammatory, traumatic, vascular, and neoplastic problems. Over the last 30 years, there has been a radical transformation of cranial base surgery with parallel advances in diagnostic modalities, surgical technologies, and radiation therapy. Advances in surgery have been driven by new surgical technologies such as image-guided navigation, Hopkins rod-lens endoscopes, and reconstructive materials. Endoscopic techniques have been adopted by most surgical disciplines and now play a prominent role in the treatment of cranial base pathology.

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  1. Department of Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Carl H. Snyderman & Eric W. Wang

  2. UPMC Center for Cranial Base Surgery, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Carl H. Snyderman, Paul A. Gardner, Juan C. Fernandez-Miranda, Elizabeth C. Tyler-Kabara & Eric W. Wang

  3. Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Paul A. Gardner, Juan C. Fernandez-Miranda & Elizabeth C. Tyler-Kabara

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  1. Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Columbia University College of Dental Medicine and New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA

    Alex M. Greenberg

  2. Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Regional Plastic Surgery, Center for Dental Medicine, Medical Center – University of Freiburg Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    Rainer Schmelzeisen

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Snyderman, C.H., Gardner, P.A., Fernandez-Miranda, J.C., Tyler-Kabara, E.C., Wang, E.W. (2019). Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery. In: Greenberg, A., Schmelzeisen, R. (eds) Craniomaxillofacial Reconstructive and Corrective Bone Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1529-3_36

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