Description: Patient Education piece for an article on Cranial Base Surgery. This piece illustrates the anatomy of the cranial base and the surgical approaches (4 craniotomy types) which serve as routes to specific locations for cranial base surgery. Surgical approaches to the brain base through craniotomy are shown here and iclude the following: orbtiozygomatic (green); transtemporal/transpetrosal (blue); transfacial/subfrontal (purple); and infratemporal (yellow). Lahey Clinic Health Magazine, Fall 2001


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