Radiosurgery of the Skull Base: A Case-Based Approach

Radiosurgery of the Skull Base: A Case-Based Approach explores non-invasive treatment of skull base pathologies using radiosurgery―all with a practical, case-based approach. This succinct, easy-to-navigate clinical reference covers stereotactic radiosurgery of skull base lesions, allowing you to quickly look up a specific pathology and tailor your radiosurgical strategy accordingly for the best treatment plan.

• Covers the basics of radiosurgery, including fundamentals of radiobiology, dose tolerances, and particle therapy, as well as how and when to utilize radiosurgery in patients with skull base tumors
• Provides a pragmatic and structured approach to more than 50 pathologies along various regions of the skull base
• Includes tumor treatment plans for various pathologies, including vestibular and facial schwannomas, pituitary adenomas, meningiomas, chordomas, trigeminal neuralgia, metastases, and more
• Presents cases based on real patient scenarios, with thorough descriptions of planning, dosages, outcomes, and follow-up images
• Discusses the dose tolerance of surrounding structures, which influences the overall treatment plan
• An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud

Siviero Agazzi is Chief of Cranial Surgery and Chief of Radiosurgery at the University of South Florida and has a 15 year experience of training residents and fellows in the fields of open skull base surgery and radiosurgery for skull base diseases. He is also serving as vice president of the North American Skull Base Society.

Lawrence B. Berk is the primary Radiation Oncologist for CNS tumors at the University of South Florida. Together with Dr Agazzi and the other University of South Florida Neurosurgeons, has performed hundreds of base of skull radiosurgeries using Cyberknife and Tomotherapy. Former Vice Chair of the national cooperative research group, the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (now NRG-Oncology), as well as former chair of the Symptom Management Committee of the RTOG. Served as the Chair of the Quality of Life program of the annual American Society of Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) annual meeting. Editor of Dying and Death in Oncology, Springer.

Mohammad Hassan Noureldine received his Medical Degree from the Lebanese American University (LAU) in 2016 and a master’s degree in Neuroimaging from Lebanese University (LU) in 2018. He graduated in 2012 with a bachelor’s degree in biology and minor in chemistry from LAU and received a University Diploma in clinical research in 2014 from LU. In 2018, he joined the Department of Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital (JHACH) as a postdoctoral research fellow and currently completing a surgical internship at the University of South Florida.