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Endoscopic Endonasal Dissection of the Pterygopalatine fossa, Infratemporal fossa, and Post‐styloid compartment. Anatomical Relationships and Importance of Eustachian Tube in the Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery
Author(s) -
RiveraSerrano Carlos M,
TerreFalcon Ramon,
FernandezMiranda Juan,
Prevedello Daniel,
Snyderman Carl H,
Gardner Paul,
Kassam Amin,
Carrau Ricardo L
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the laryngoscope
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.181
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1531-4995
pISSN - 0023-852X
DOI - 10.1002/lary.21711
Subject(s) - pterygopalatine fossa , neurosurgery , medicine , eustachian tube , dissection (medical) , infratemporal fossa , otorhinolaryngology , anatomy , skull , surgery , middle ear
treatment of skull base disorders and is routinely used in some centers for the treatment of neoplastic and non-neoplastic cranial base pathology. The group of minimally invasive endoscopic techniques used to approach the cranial base are also known as expanded endoscopic approaches (EEA), which are classified in a modular fashion under two main categories: sagittal (or cranio-caudal) and coronal (or medio-lateral). Figure 1