Clinical Anatomy of the Head : Neurocranium · Orbit · Craniocervical Regions

This volume on the clinical anatomy of the neurocranium, the orbit and the craniocervical junction is intended to provide a precise and detailed account for the use of neurosurgeons, otorhinolaryngologists, neuroradiologists and roentgenologists. In recent years diagnostic tech­ niques and the scope of surgical intervention have broadened and have become increasingly refined. Many procedures are nowadays carried out with the aid of magnifying lenses and operat­ ing microscopes which bring diminutive structures into the range of the surgeon's hand and eye. This means that an atlas of the clinical anatomy of the head must give the surgeon working with the operating microscope and the diagnostician using sophisticated equipment full details of the morphology relevant to the scope of each specialty. It would be a fascinating task to depict all the structures of the orbit and the head from the skull base upwards, but any such plan would have required a photoatlas in several volumes. For this reason I have confined myself to medical problems of current importance. In this volume I have included numerous variations which I have myself encountered, so as to underline the diversity of human anatomy. A more comprehensive presentation of the findings and the structures of the head will be published in the three volumes of LANZ-WACHSMUTH. All the dissections illustrated in this book were prepared and photographed by myself. Front Matter....Pages I-XIV Synopsis of the Skull....Pages 1-22 Diploic Veins, Meninges and Scalp....Pages 23-29 Orbit and Contents....Pages 31-66 Anterior Cranial Fossa, the Approach to the Orbit and the Ethmoid Bone....Pages 67-93 The Floor of the Orbit....Pages 95-101 Pituitary Region and Anterior Cranial Fossa: Approaches via the Cranium....Pages 103-143 Transnasal Approach to the Pituitary Region....Pages 145-167 Cisternae and Vessels of the Pituitary and Diencephalon....Pages 169-184 Cavernous Sinus and Trigeminal Ganglion....Pages 185-203 Cerebral Ventricles of the Anterior and Middle Cranial Fossae....Pages 205-232 Floor and Contents of the Middle Cranial Fossa....Pages 233-296 Midbrain and Adjacent Structures....Pages 297-321 Posterior Cranial Fossa and Contents....Pages 323-395 Craniocervical Junction....Pages 397-446 Skull: Data for Computed Tomography....Pages 447-473 Back Matter....Pages 475-489