CUMMINGS OTOLARYNGOLOGY (3 VOL.) HEAD AND NECK SURGERY

Description

Now in its 6thedition, Cummings Otolaryngology remains the world's most detailed and trustedsource for superb guidance on all facets of head and neck surgery. Completelyupdated with the latest minimally invasive procedures, new clinicalphotographs, line drawings, and new surgical videos, this latest edition equipsyou to implement all the newest discoveries, techniques, and technologies thatare shaping patient outcomes. Be certain with expert, dependable,accurate answers for every stage of your career from the most comprehensive,multi-disciplinary text in the field!

New to this edition

• Glean all essential, up-to-date, need-to-know information. All chapters have been meticulously updated; several extensively revised with new images, references, and content.

• Stay at the forefront of your field with the most updated information on minimally-invasive surgical approaches to the entire skull base, vestibular implants and vestibular management involving intratympanic and physical therapy-based approaches, radiosurgical treatment of posterior fossa and skull base neoplasms, and intraoperative monitoring of cranial nerve and CNS function.

• Apply the latest treatment options in pediatric care with new chapters on pediatric sleep disorders, pediatric infectious disease, and evaluation and management of the infant airway.

• Find what you need faster through a streamlined format, reorganized chapters, and a color design that expedites reference.

• Manage many of the most common disorders with treatment options derived from their genetic basis.

• Assess real-world effectiveness and costs associated with emergent technologies and surgical approaches introduced to OHNS over the past 10 years.

• Incorporate recent findings about endoscopic, microscopic, laser, surgically-implantable, radiosurgical, neurophysiological monitoring, MR- and CT-imaging, and other timely topics that now define contemporary operative OHNS.

• Take it with you anywhere! With Expert Consult, you'll have access the full text, video clips, and more online, and as an eBook - at no additional cost!

Key Features

• Overcome virtually any clinical challenge with detailed, expert coverage of every area of head and neck surgery, authored by hundreds of leading luminaries in the field.

• Experience clinical scenarios with vivid clarity through a heavily illustrated, full-color format which includes approximately 3,200 images and over 40 high quality procedural videos.

• Get truly diverse perspectives and worldwide best practices from a multi-disciplinary team of contributors and editors comprised of the worlds leading experts.

Author Info

By Paul W. Flint, MD, Professor and Chair, Department ofOtolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University,Portland, Oregon ; Bruce H. Haughey, MBChB, MS, FACS, FRACS, Professor andDirector, Division of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology, Department ofOtolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine,St. Louis, MO; Valerie J. Lund, CBE, MS, FRCS, FRCSEd, Professor of Rhinology,University College, London; Honorary Consultant ENT Surgeon, Royal NationalThroat, Nose and Ear Hospital Trust, University College and Moorfields Eye Hospitals,London, UK ; John K. Niparko, MD, Tiber Alpert Chair, Otolaryngology-Head &Neck Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, California ; Mark A.Richardson, MD, Professor, Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery;Dean, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland,OR, USA; K. Thomas Robbins, MD, FACS , Director, SimmonsCooper Cancer Instituteat SIU; Professor, Division of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, SouthernIllinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL and J. Regan Thomas,MD, FACS, Francis L. Lederer Professor, Department Head, Department ofOtolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago MedicalCenter, Chicago, IL.