OBJECT Transsphenoidal approaches have been used for a century for the resection of pituitary and other sellar tumors. More recently, the standard endonasal approach has been expanded to provide access to other, parasellar lesions. With the addition of the endoscope, this expansion carries significant potential for the resection of skull base lesions. METHODS The anatomical landmarks and surg...

BACKGROUND Several quality of life (QOL) instruments exist for skull base pathology, however, there have been no attempts to appraise and systematically review these instruments. METHODS We systematically reviewed MEDLINE, EMBASE, Central, AMED, Health and Psychosocial Instruments, and PsychoInfo for anterior or central skull base QOL instruments to January 2010. We queried experts, bibliogra...

PURPOSE To describe the normal CT appearance of the developing anterior skull base in children 24 months of age and younger. METHODS A retrospective review of the CT examinations of a healthy population of 61 subjects newborn through 24 months of age was performed. Two investigators independently reviewed the examinations, making measurements and observations regarding the length of the skull...

The aim of the present report was to present the patient with an anterior cranial base fracture who developed post-traumatic cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea, which recovered after onset of meningitis complication. A 26-year-old male patient who had a traffic accident one week ago was sent to our clinic because of his rhinorrhea persisting for 4 days. On cranial computed tomography, fracture of t...

forty-nine preserved specimens (31 male and 18 female) of trachylepis aurata transcaucsasica were examined with respect to metric and meristic features and dry skull anatomy to assess sexual dimorphism. thirty-one morphological characters and 36 anatomical characters in dry skulls were examined. subdigital lamellae under the forth toe, neck length, neck length/snout vent length, and six skull c...

Radiologic evaluation of basal foramina of the skull is frequently a critical aspect in the diagnosis of patients with deficits referable to cranial nerves. Commonly encountered normal asymmetries and individual variations often make interpretation difficult. A pseudoforamen in the skull base was initially observed in skull radiographs of several patients and correlated with images of a dried s...