Atlas of topographical anatomy of the brain and surrounding structures : for neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, and neuropathologists

The traditional education of the neurosurgeon and duce simultaneous contrast preparations of the ar­ the clinician working in related specialties is based teries and veins and thus obtain a complex photo­ on their presumed knowledge of the macroscopic graphic representation of the structures of the prep­ anatomy of the brain as traditionally taught. Most aration. neurosurgical textbooks, therefore, provide macro­ The manuscript and drawings were completed in the scopic views of sections of the operative site. The years 1974-1976 after almost two decades of neu­ literature that has accumulated in recent years on rosurgical work. The data worked out in the early the subject of microneurosurgical operations also stages (Chapter 1 in particular) were used by the follows this principle. author as the basis for teaching programmes at the For some years, however, the customary macro­ University of Giessen. Chapters 2-7, dealing with scopic representation of the anatomy of the brain the operative technical aspects, were produced after has been inadequate for the needs of the neurosur­ mid-1975 and used by the author as the basis for geon using refined modern operative techniques. microneurosurgical teaching of his colleagues at the Furthermore, despite their detailed presentation, University of Freiburg. stereotactic atlases are also insufficient for neuro­ My thanks are due to Doz. Dr. E. Front Matter....Pages I-IX Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Brain and Cerebral Arteries....Pages 3-107 Front Matter....Pages 109-109 Frontal Lobe and Upper Brainstem....Pages 111-195 Temporal Lobe and Upper Brainstem....Pages 196-283 Parietal Lobe....Pages 284-327 Occipital Region and Lamina quadrigemina....Pages 328-367 Supratentorial Structures Near the Ventricles....Pages 368-427 Cerebellum and Lower Brainstem....Pages 428-535 Back Matter....Pages 537-545 This anatomical atlas provides a comprehensive approach to questions and techniques. Anatomical drawings are used throughout the work to illustrate brain structures and separate arterial and venous structures.