title: The integration of neurosurgical techniques in current head and neck skull base surgery.
abstract: The recent advances in neurosurgery, applied to the growing field of skull base surgery, provide surgeons with new techniques to avoid the devastating complication of CSF leak, to improve patient selection by reducing the risk of stroke while expanding the operative options available to patients with head and neck malignancies, and to aid operative care through improved surgical planning and intraoperative localization.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York-Buffalo, 3 Gates Circle, Buffalo, NY 14209, USA. kgibbons@Buffns.com
authors.forename: Kevin J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Gibbons
authors.forename: Amos O
authors.initials: AO
authors.lastname: Dare
mesh_terms: D002343:Carotid Artery, Internal; D002555:Cerebrospinal Fluid; D003097:Collateral Circulation; D004322:Drainage; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects; D019291:Skull Base / Q000601:surgery*; D019292:Skull Base Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D013238:Stereotaxic Techniques