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General, Surgical, and Functional Anatomy for Vascular Lesions of Head and Neck

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Knowledge of anatomy is the cornerstone of surgery. This chapter focuses on the anatomical and surgical considerations for readers considering surgery of vascular tumors. While the blood supply of the head and neck is rich and provides a great zone for flaps, they add complexity to tumors of vascular origin. Discussed in this chapter are vascular anatomy of major vessels, the facial nerve and its significance, ligation of arteries, approaches to the face.

This chapter provides thematic sections with the aim to give you anatomical reference guides to head and neck anatomy, its vascular detail and anatomical considerations for surgical approaches.

We aim to provide a ready reckoner of anatomy and the normal literature quoted reference guide to the arterial inner luminal and outer diameters of the head and neck. The reference details we hope provides a guide in identification of nidus, especially in the high-flow vascular lesions and the review of anatomical ranges of other lesions.

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  • 13 July 2022

    Chapter 7 in: S. C. Nair, S. R. Chandra (eds.), Management of Head and Neck Vascular Lesions,

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  1. Oral & Maxillofacial- Head & Neck Oncology Reconstructive Surgery, Oregon Health & Science University Portland, Portland, OR, USA

    Srinivasa R. Chandra

  2. Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain Hospital, Bengaluru, India

    Sunil Shroff

  3. Department of Otolaryngology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA

    Steven Curry

  4. UIH Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Amelia Christabel Rajasekaran

  5. Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, B.M. Jain Hospital, Bangalore Institute of Dental Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

    Sanjiv C. Nair

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Chandra, S.R., Shroff, S., Curry, S., Christabel Rajasekaran, A., Nair, S.C. (2022). General, Surgical, and Functional Anatomy for Vascular Lesions of Head and Neck. In: Nair, S.C., Chandra, S.R. (eds) Management of Head and Neck Vascular Lesions. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2321-2_7

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