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Imaging of the Postoperative Skull Base and Cerebellopontine Angle

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This chapter reviews the diagnostic imaging findings related to the surgeries involving the skull base and cerebellopontine angle cistern regions, including anterior cranial (craniofacial) resection, decompression of cystic craniopharyngiomas, transsphenoidal tumor resection, transsphenoidal tumor resection, transsphenoidal tumor resection, surgical approaches for vestibular schwannoma resection, and radiosurgery for vestibular schwannomas.

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  1. Department of Radiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Daniel Thomas Ginat M.D., M.S.

  2. Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Peleg M. Horowitz M.D., Ph.D.

  3. Department of Radiology, Columbia Presbyterian, New York, NY, USA

    Gul Moonis M.D.

  4. Department of Radiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Suresh K. Mukherji M.D., M.B.A., F.A.C.R.

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Ginat, D.T., Horowitz, P.M., Moonis, G., Mukherji, S.K. (2017). Imaging of the Postoperative Skull Base and Cerebellopontine Angle. In: Ginat, D., Westesson, PL. (eds) Atlas of Postsurgical Neuroradiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52341-5_7

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