This volume thoroughly describes indications, diagnostic methods, preoperative procedures, operative goals, surgical preparation, anesthesia, and step-by-step operative techniques and modifications. The reader will find full coverage of the enormous strides that have been made in curative and functional microsurgery of the ear, state-of-the-art surgical techniques on tumors of the temporal bone and lateral skull base, precise new diagnostic modalities, and much more.
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Outline of Contents: - Local Anesthesia of the Ear; - Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery of the Auricle; - Surgical Management of Congenital Ear Malformations, - Surgery of the Outer Ear, Middle Ear and Temporal Bone for the Removal of Disease and for Reconstruction; - Temporal Bone Trauma; - Surgery for Tumors of the Middle Ear and Lateral Skull Base; - Surgery of the Intracranial Facial Nerve Proximal to the Stylomastoid Foramen; - Operations for Stapedial Ankylosis; - Surgical Management of Otogenic Intracranial Complications; - Surgery of the Labyrinth and Internal Canal for Disequilibrium; - Removal of Acoustic Neuroma through the Retrosigmoid (Lateral Suboccipital) Approach; - Acoustic Tumor Removal: Middle Fossa and Translabyrinthine Approaches; - Basic Aspects of Neurosurgical Procedures in the Head Region; - Cochlear Implants; - Interventional Radiology for Tumors of the Temporal Bone
