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Tumors of the Skull Base

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The big chapter about tumors of the skull base demonstrates the different aspects and neurosurgical techniques by renowned and very experienced skull base surgeons in a compact form. Due to the consecutive illustration with corresponding intraoperative photographic images, every single step of even complex surgical procedures can be reproduced and understood underlining the didactic value of the book. By means of the different tumor entities, the different surgical approaches including their advantages and disadvantages are demonstrated. The surgical and further strategies are explained from a practical point of view by using selected clinical cases as examples.

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