In Wolfgang Koos' final work, a lifetime of experience in the surgical
treatment of the acoustic neurinoma is presented in the style of the brilliantly
successful Koos-Spetzler microneurosurgery series.

Diagnosis is a strong point
of this atlas, as surgical strategies are planned according to the anatomic
location and growth pattern of these tumors.

The preoperative considerations,
operating room set-up, patient positioning, and neuronavigational equipment are
described for microsurgery in the cerebellopontine angle region.

The operative...