Paolo Castelnuovo • Iacopo Dallan
Manfred Tschabitscher

2013

An Atlas for Skull Base Surgeons

Knowledge of human anatomy is one of the bases for the exercise of medicine. The considerable growth of core disciplines such as physiology, genetics, and immunology has led to major development of the teaching of these disciplines over the past 20 years, increasingly limiting the teaching of anatomy, which is sometimes considered a “too old” discipline. At the same time, during the last decade the growth and development of new surgical echniques (especially endoscopically assisted ones) and their everyday application has been phenomenal.