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Surgery of the Skull Base

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This chapter describes the anatomy of the osseous skull base and the neurovascular structures in the anterior, middle, and posterior cranial fossa with special emphasis on the clinical and surgical meaning of their morphology.

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  1. Surgical Neuroanatomy Lab, Department of Neurological Surgery, UPMC Presbyterian, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Hamid Borghei-Razavi & Juan Fernandez-Miranda

  2. Neurochirurgische Klinik, Klinikum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Marcel Biegler & Alexander König

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  1. Neurochirurgische Klinik, Städtisches Klinikum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

    Alexander König

  2. Neurochirurgische Klinik, Klinikum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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Borghei-Razavi, H., Biegler, M., König, A., Fernandez-Miranda, J. (2018). Clinical Anatomy. In: König, A., Spetzger, U. (eds) Surgery of the Skull Base. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64018-1_2

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