Atlas of Neurosurgery: Basic Approaches to Cranial and Vascular Procedures

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Churchill Livingstone, 1999 - Medical - 388 pages
The purpose of this Atlas is to provide neurosurgeons with an educational tool useful when preparing to perform common intracranial procedures. The operations chosen for review are based on a list created by determining the frequency of each procedure performed by the author. It is organized from the perspective of a surgical approach. The intent being to provide the surgeon with a framework to review ways of accessing a region and performing a particular surgical procedure.
  • Discussions on anatomy are purposely brief to focus on information that should be immediately helpful when performing an operation.
  • The surgical procedures that were chosen for discussion were based on the frequency done by the authors.
  • All illustrations were drawn by the same artist.
  • All illustrations are in colour

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    Contents

    Frontotemporal Approach
    49
    Frontal Approach
    83
    Parietal Approach
    125
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