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This chapter illustrates the surgical anatomy of the most challenging portion of the internal carotid artery, surgically speaking. At this level, the carotid artery runs within the skull base, and it is therefore intracranial and extradural. Helpful surgical landmarks for approaching this tract of the vessel, both from lateral and from anterior endoscopic approaches, are reported, and particular emphasis is given to the anatomical relationship of the internal carotid artery with all the bony, neural, and vascular structures of the skull base, as well as with the middle ear.
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Castelnuovo, P., Dallan, I., Tschabitscher, M. (2013). Skull Base Segment. In: Surgical Anatomy of the Internal Carotid Artery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29664-2_2
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