Surgery of Cerebellopontine Lesions

• Main Authors: Samii, Madjid. (Author), Gerganov, Venelin. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiology, Medical.; Neurology.; Neurosurgery.; Otorhinolaryngology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Neuroradiology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35422-9

Surgery is the mainstay of treatment of almost all cerebellopontine angle lesions. As a result of the progress in neuroanatomy, neuroradiology, neuroanesthesiology, microsurgery and other adjacent fields, total tumor removal with preservation of neurological function has become the generally accepte...

Table of Contents:

• History of�cerebellopontine�Angle Surgery
• Microsurgical Anatomy of the cerebellopontine Angle by the retrosigmoid Approach
• Neuropathology of the cerebellopontine�Angle and its Surroundings
• Approaches to the cerebellopontine�Angle
• Vestibular Schwannomas
• Neurofibromatosis Type 2 and other bilateral cerebellopontine�Angle Tumors
• Meningiomas
• Cerebellopontine�Angle�Epidermoids
• Nonvestibular Schwannomas.-�Jugular Foramen Tumors
• Other cerebellopontine�Angle Tumors
• Management of Facial Palsy.