- •Foreword
- •Preface
- •Acknowledgement
- •Contents
- •Collaborators
- •1: Cervical Segment
- •1.1 Anatomic Layout
- •1.1.1 Proximal Segment
- •1.1.2 Cranial Segment
- •1.1.3 Jugular Foramen Region
- •1.2 Anatomic Pictures
- •References
- •2: Skull Base Segment
- •2.1 Anatomic Layout
- •2.1.1 Gross Anatomy
- •2.1.2 Neural Structures
- •2.1.2.1 Greater Petrosal Nerve
- •2.1.2.2 Geniculate Ganglion
- •2.1.2.3 Lesser Petrosal Nerve
- •2.1.2.4 Gasserian Ganglion
- •2.1.3 Vascular Branches
- •2.1.3.1 Caroticotympanic Artery
- •2.1.3.3 Stapedial Artery
- •2.1.3.4 Periosteal Branch(es)
- •2.1.3.5 Persistent Acoustic Artery
- •2.2 Anatomic Pictures
- •References
- •3: Intracranial Segment
- •Cavernous Segment
- •3.1 Anatomic Layout
- •3.1.1 Gross Anatomy
- •3.1.2 Neural Structures
- •Maxillary Nerve
- •Oculomotor Nerve
- •Trochlear Nerve
- •Abducens Nerve
- •Ophthalmic Nerve
- •Sympathetic Plexus
- •Meningohypophyseal Trunk
- •Inferolateral Trunk (Artery of the Inferior Cavernous Sinus)
- •McConnell’s Capsular Artery
- •Persistent Trigeminal Artery
- •Ophthalmic Artery
- •Superior Hypophyseal Artery (Arteries)
- •Recurrent Artery of the Foramen Lacerum
- •Artery of the Gasserian Ganglion
- •3.2 Anatomic Pictures
- •Supracavernous Segment
- •3.3 Anatomic Layout
- •3.3.1 Clinoidal Segment
- •3.3.2 Cisternal or Supraclinoid Segment
- •3.3.3 Vascular Branches
- •The Superior Hypophyseal and the Infundibular Arteries
- •Ophthalmic Artery
- •Posterior Communicating Artery
- •Anterior Choroidal Artery
- •Anterior Cerebral Artery
- •Middle Cerebral Artery
- •3.4 Anatomic Pictures
- •References
- •Index
Acknowledgement
Authors would like to thank Prof. Alberto Prats Galino and Matteo de Notaris for their kindness. Pictures 1.12, 1.28 (inferior-right), 1.32 (superior-right), 1.34 (inferior-left), 1.37 (inferior), 1.49 (right), 3.78 (inferior), 3.80, 3.84 have been taken in the Laboratory of Surgical Neuroanatomy (LSNA), Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona (Head Prof. Alberto Prats Galino).
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Cranial Segment......................................................... |
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Skull Base Segment......................................................................... |
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Anatomic Layout .................................................................... |
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Clinoidal Segment...................................................... |
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Vascular Branches...................................................... |
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Anatomic Pictures................................................................... |
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