This volume thoroughly describes indications, diagnostic methods, preoperative procedures, operative goals, surgical preparation, anesthesia, and step-by-step operative techniques and modifications. The reader will find full coverage of the enormous strides that have been made in curative and functional microsurgery of the ear, state-of-the-art surgical techniques on tumors of the temporal bone and lateral skull base, precise new diagnostic modalities, and much more. sakriti opis