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Expanded Endoscopic Endonasal Approaches to the Skull Base

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Cranial, Craniofacial and Skull Base Surgery

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Although endoscopic sinus surgery started in the early 1900s with the work of Hirschmann [1] in 1903 and Escat in 1911 [2], it only progressed after a better understanding of sinonasal physiology was provided by Messerklinger [3], and the development of rod lens systems by Hopkins in the 1960s [1].

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  1. Dept of Neurological Surgery and Dept of Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Amin B. Kassam, Ricardo L. Carrau & Carl H. Snyderman

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Prevedello, D.M., Kassam, A.B., Gardner, P.A., Carrau, R.L., Snyderman, C.H. (2010). Expanded Endoscopic Endonasal Approaches to the Skull Base. In: Cappabianca, P., Iaconetta, G., Califano, L. (eds) Cranial, Craniofacial and Skull Base Surgery. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-1167-0_18

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