Published: September 10, 2025
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⭐️ Areas that permit entrance into the skull base: 🟦Dark blue: Cribriform plate 🟥Red: Planum ethmoidale 🟨Yellow: Planum sphenoidale 🟪Purple: Tuberculum sellae ⬜️White: Sella turcica 🟩Green: Dorsum sellae 🩵Light blue: Clivus 🟧Orange: Craniovertebral junction and anterior
@daniel_gewolb This skull base anatomy is beautiful, but it also shows why endoscopic surgery through the nose has revolutionized neurosurgery. That colored pathway represents access routes that used to require major craniotomies.
@daniel_gewolb White should be hypophyseal fossa 😊
@daniel_gewolb "midline" structures...
@daniel_gewolb Thanks