Wolfgang Seeger: Standard variants of the skull and brain—an atlas for neurosurgeons and neuroradiologists

Excerpt

With the increasing quality of neuroimaging and modern neuronavigation, we neurosurgeons sometimes might feel that classical anatomical knowledge seems to lose some importance. The present publication helps us to understand that this feeling is definitely not correct. Professor Wolfgang Seeger once more has created a wonderful book on the most important skull and brain variants that are important to us. The book, which is not only designed in black and white, but is nicely illustrated with colour figures, leads us in five chapters through the various anatomical regions of the human skull and brain. In some instances the book uses phylogenetic and ontogenetic explanations to help the reader better understand the varying human anatomy. …