Intrinsic and Skull Base Tumors, 1st Edition
Unique in the field Intrinsic and Skull Base Tumors presents commonly encountered skull base and intrinsic neoplasm cases with side-by-side case-by-case comparisons; that clearly shows how various experts would handle the same case. This inaugural volume in Neurosurgery; Case Comparison Series offers multiple opinions from international experts in neurosurgery who provide various approaches and management styles for the same case. This format allows for quick and helpful comparisons of different ways to approach; a lesion advantages and disadvantages of each approach and what each expert is looking for in how they would manage a particular case.
Key Features
- Offers 3 to 4 expert opinions on each case in a templated format designed to help you quickly make side-by-side comparisons;—an ideal learning tool for both trainees and practicing neurosurgeons for board review and case preparation.
- Helps you easily grasp different approaches to brain tumor management with different expert approaches; to the same case and summaries from the editors on the advantages and disadvantages to each approach.
- Features a wide variety of management decisions, from preoperative studies to surgical approach, surgical adjuncts, and postoperative care; from experts in the field who specialize in different aspects of neurosurgery.
- Covers low and high grade gliomas, metastatic brain cancers, meningiomas; sellar and parasellar lesions, skull base lesions, and other brain lesions such as colloid cyst, cavernoma, hemangioblastoma, brain abscess, and more.
- Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text; figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
Author Information
Edited by Kaisorn Chaichana, MD, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Oncology, and Otolaryngology, Department of Neurosurgery, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida and Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, MD, FAANS, FACS, Professor, Chair of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida
