© 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Please note that the copyright for the original figures submitted by the contributors is owned by Contributors. Introduction Chordomas and chondrosarcomas are rare skull base tumors, with an incidence of less than 0.03…
© 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Please note that the copyright for the original figures submitted by the contributors is owned by Contributors. Introduction The retrosigmoid approach (RSA) provides a wide exposure of the cerebellopontine angle (CPA) cistern. Meckel’s…
© 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Please note that the copyright for the original figures submitted by the contributors is owned by Contributors. Lateral approaches to the central skull base traverse the floor of the middle cranial fossa en…
© 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Please note that the copyright for the original figures submitted by the contributors is owned by Contributors. Introduction Control of local disease is the critical determinant of the ultimate treatment outcome in most…
© 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Please note that the copyright for the original figures submitted by the contributors is owned by Contributors. Introduction The differential diagnosis of clival and spinal tumors is vast and includes a variety of…
© 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Please note that the copyright for the original figures submitted by the contributors is owned by Contributors. Introduction Chordomas and chondrosarcomas are rare bone cancers. Their estimated combined annual incidence varies from 0.3…
Introduction ▪ Successful management of malignant clival pathology extending into the posterior fossa continues to be a formidable challenge to the skull base surgeon. ▪ Classically, the clivus and posterior fossa have been approached using lateral and/or transoral-transpalatal routes. ▪…