Key Features:
Excellent integration of text, photos, drawings, and videos (Media Center)
New edition with approx. 25% more text and 40% more images
10 completely new chapters: pathophysiology of rhinosinusitis, sense of smell, applied anatomy, endoscopically assisted bimanual operating technique [sought-after guidance - Simmen developed it!], etc.
To reflect recent developments, greatly expanded coverage of anterior skull base surgery (4 new chps.), written by master surgeons (A. Stamm [Brazil], Kris Moe [Washington], Robert Reisch [neurosurgeon, Zurich])
Includes current evidence-based guidelines (EPOS 2012, EU Skull Base)

Professor, Dept. of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Queens Medical Centre, University Hospital, Nottingham, UK

1 Principles of Practice
2 Pathophysiology of Rhinosinusitis
3 Who? Optimizing Diagnosis and Selection of Patients for Surgery
4 When? Medical Treatment and Timing of Surgery
5 Preserving and Improving the Sense of Smell
6 Why? The Goals of Surgery
7 Applied Anatomy for Endoscopic Sinus and Skull Base Surgery
8 How? Operative Procedures: A Step-by-Step Safe and Logical Approach
9 An Endoscopic Tour: Endoscopic Examination, Anatomical Variation, and Specific Conditions
10 The Place of Radiology
11 Preoperative Checklist
12 Patient Consent and Information
13 Preoperative Aids
14 Hints
15 Preventing and Dealing with Complications
16 Postoperative Management
17 Extended Endoscopic Procedures
18 The Endoscopically Assisted Bimanual Operating Technique
19 Transnasal Endoscopic Approaches to the Skull Base
20 Interdisciplinary Teamwork in Transnasal Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery
21 Transnasal Endoscopic Surgery of Pituitary Tumors
22 Transorbital Surgery of the Skull Base
23 Evidence Base in Rhinosinusitis and Endoscopic Sinus Surgery
Appendix: Information for Patients Undergoing Endoscopic Sinus Surgery