RHOTON CRANIAL ANATOMY AND SURGICAL APPROACHES

Rhoton's Cranial Anatomy and Surgical Approaches, a hardbound collection of the complete 2000 and 2002 classic supplements to Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, is the must-have resource for any neurosurgeons' personal library. The latest edition includes a new and lengthy section on Operative Techniques and Instrumentation for Neurosurgery. This book is a distillation of a forty-plus-years effort by the author to improve the safety, accuracy and gentleness of neurosurgery. The book is divided into three sections. The first section reviews micro-operative techniques and instrument selection. The second section, in nine chapters, deals with the microsurgical anatomy and approaches to the supratentorial area and anterior cranial base, and includes chapters on aneurysms, the lateral and third ventricles, cavernous sinus and sella. The third section, in ten chapters, deals with anatomy and approaches to the posterior cranial fossa and posterior cranial base, and includes chapters on the fourth ventricle, tentorial incisura, foramen magnum, temporal bone and jugular foramen. The sections on the supra- and infratentorial areas have extensive chapters on the cerebrum and cerebellum and their arteries and veins. It is hoped and expected that new, improved and safer approaches to brain surgery will grow out of the study of this work.