The goal of Skull Base Surgery: Basic Techniques is to provide the surgeon with a descriptive, step by step, pictorial analysis of skull base surgical techniques. Emphasis is placed on the most commonly used and applicable procedures that address the majority of the pathology encountered in standard practice.

1. Preoperative Evaluation and Management from the Neurosurgical Perspective Raymond Walkup, MD and Jefferey Olson, MD 2. Anterior Skull Base Preoperative Evaluation from the Otolaryngologic Perspective J. Nicolas McLean, MD and Charles E. Moore, MD 3. Craniofacial Approach to Skull Base Lesions Jeremy N. Ciporen, MD Jeffrey J. Olson MD and Charles E. Moore, MD 4. Petrosal Craniotomy Tomoko Tanaka MD, Douglas Mattox MD, and Jeffrey J. Olson MD 5. Endoscopic Endonasal Skull Base Surgery Vladimir Dadashev, MD, David LaBorde, M.D.andCostas G. Hadjipanayis, MD, PhD 6. Endoscopic Tumor Resection and Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak Repair Jodi D.Zuckerman MD and John M. DelGaudio MD 7. Orbitozygomatic Approach to the Sellar Region David V. LaBorde, MD and Nelson M. Oyesiku, MD, PhD 8. Far Lateral Suboccipital Approach Vaninder S. Chhabra, MD, Daniel L. Barrow, MD, Gerald R. Rodts, MD 9. Postoperative Evaluation and Management of the Skullbase Patient Frederick Durden, MD and Charles E. Moore, MD 10. Ancillary Procedures in Skullbase Surgery G. Aaron Rogers MD and Charles E. Moore MD 11. Imaging of the Anterior and Central Skull Base Amanda Corey, MD