Main description:

This book is a complete guide to skull base imaging covering all current techniques including CT, MRI, Ultrasound, Angiography, CT Cisternography and Plain Film Radiography.

Divided into eight sections, each part covers imaging techniques for a different region of the skull base, including cerebellopontine, anterior, posterior and middle cranial fossa, the pituitary region, craniovertebral junction and more. The final chapters discuss inflammatory disorders and sarcomas.

The book includes the very latest techniques including diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) and FLAIR. Each chapter features key points, clues, incidence and location, as well as detail on presentation, epidemiology, pathology, staging, differential diagnosis, treatment and prognosis.

Authored by recognised experts from Washington and Michigan, this comprehensive guide is enhanced by radiological images and illustrations.

Key Points

• Complete guide to skull base imaging


• Covers all regions of the skull base


• Includes latest techniques including DWI and FLAIR


• US-based, expert author team

Contents:

Section I: Pituitary Region                                                                          

• RCC, Rathke's Cleft Cyst                                               


• Pituitary Adenoma                                         


• Craniopharyngioma                                       


• EN, Ectopic Neurohypohysis                                      


• HH,Hypothalamic Hamartoma                                   


• Neurohypophyseal Sarcoidosis                                 


• Arachnoid Cyst                                 


• Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis                                     

Section II: Cerebellopontine Angle                                                                        

• Epidermoid                                        


• CPA Meningioma                                            


• Vestibular Schwannomas                                            


• Arachnoid Cyst                                 

Section III: Anterior Cranial Fossa                                                                           

• Anterior Fossa Meningioma                                       


• IP, Inverted Papilloma                                  


• JNA, Juvenile Nasal Angiofibroma                                           


• NEC, Neuroendocrine Carcinoma                                            


• NFE, Nasofrontal Encephalocele                                              


• SNM, Sinonasal Melanoma                                         


• Nasal Dermoid                                 


• Nasal Glioma                                     


• Paranasal Sinus Mucocele                                           


• Osteoma                                            


• SNUC                                   


• Skull Base Fx/CSF Leaks                                


• Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma                                           


• Paranasal Sinus Cancer                                 

Section IV: Middle Cranial Fossa                                                                             

• Jugular Foramen Paraganglioma                                               


• Clivus Chordoma                                             


• LM, Lymphatic Malformations                                   


• AFS, Allergic Fungal Sinusitis                                       


• MCF 5, Basal Encephalocele                                       


• Cavernous Sinus Aneurysm                                        


• Gradenigo's Syndrome                                 


• Cavernous Sinus Thrombosis                                     


• Cavernous Sinus Lymphoma                                      


• Aneurysmal Bone Cyst                                 


• Cholesteatoma                                


• Giant Aneurysm                                              


• Giant Cell Tumor                                             


• Giant Osteoma                                


• Plasmacytoma/ Myeloma                                           


• Metastatic Prostate                                       


• Choclear Implants                                           


• Petrous Apex Granuloma                                            


• Gradenigo's Syndrome                                 

Section V: Craniovertebral Junction                                                                       

• AOJ Dislocation                                


• Chiari Malformation                                       


• CVJ Lymphoma                                


• Congenital Abnormalities (other)                                            


• Paget Disease                                   

Section VI: Posterior Cranial Fossa                                                                             

• PFAC Posterior Fossa Arachnoid Cyst                                     


• Meningioma                                     


• Hemangioblastoma/Hemangiopericytoma                                          


• Metastasis                                         


• Plasmacytoma medulloblastoma                                             

Section VII: Inflammatory                                                                           

• Skull Base Osteomyelitis                                              


• Neurosyphilis                                   


• Sarcoidosis                                         


• Danger Space Abscess                                  


• Wegeners                                          


• Cistercercosis                                   

Section VIII: Sarcomas                                                                  

• Chondrosarcoma                                            


• Ewings Sarcoma                                               


• Osteosarcoma                                  


• Fibrosarcoma                                    


• Undifferentiated Sarcoma                                          


• Rhabdomyosarcoma                                     


• Synovial Sarcoma                                           


• Angiosarcoma