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Edited by Laligam N. Sekhar and Ivo P. Janecka. 870 pp., illustrated. New York, Raven Press, 1993. $225. ISBN 0-88167-877-5.

The border zone between the brain and the body -- known as the skull base -- has long been an area of doom. Patients who had tumors in this area and surgeons who ventured into this area faced poor prognoses and poor outcomes. But recent advances in diagnostic, anesthetic, and surgical techniques have opened up this frontier to those with the proper skill and training and, probably necessarily, the proper colleagues. Teamwork that involves radiologists, angiographers, anesthesiologists, otorhinolaryngologists, neurosurgeons, plastic surgeons, oral surgeons, and ophthalmologists is essential to the proper care of patients with cranial-base tumors. Sekhar and Janecka have . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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