New Releases by Andre LeBlanc

Twenty years ago Andre Leblanc first walked into the depart to the next, and charming everybody from Chicago to ment to present his manuscript on the determination of the Singapore to Taiwan ... Not a month goes by without one of axes of the various foramens, canals, and sulci of the base of Andre Leblanc's new posters, more educational than ever, the skull, their tomographical investigation and their environ being added to the others to the walls of radiology practices ment, to my master, Professor Claude Libersa. The project or MRI centers. was thoroughly remodeled and enhanced by coupling classi cal anatomy with the exploding new imaging techniques. The book we present today, entitled "Atlas of Hearing and Balance Organs A Practical Guide For Otolaryngologists", is Only a curious, minute, inventive, and tireless worker like a model of its kind in terms of rigour, knowledge, and Andre Leblanc could make this ambitions project a success. aesthetics. The new perspectives that it offers will help each Thanks to his determination, he mobilized some of the best and everyone get a better grasp of the ear's organization and radiologists, clinicians, editors, and even anatomists, and identify the 70 elements that are said to compose it.

Andre Leblanc's book was originally conceived to help in even more importance to this remarkable production. the radiologic location of the orifices at the skull base trans The final outcome of this long research is the work now mitting the cranial nerves. With the passage of time it has completed after so much persistent exertion, and also after become a true atlas of anatomy, radiology, computed to so many transient hold-ups that Andre Leblanc has been mography and magnetic resonance imaging, whose final able to overcome, thanks to an unwavering faith in the range far exceeds the initial aims. utility of his work. Having followed the conception of this book from the out Thus it is that collected here, for each cranial nerve, will be set, I am well able to assess the stringency with which this found its anatomic description, its course and distribution, study has been pursued. Based on everyday radiologic prac its radiologic identification in the different regions it travers tice, Andre Leblanc has perfected a series of methods allow es, a review of its pathology and the computed tomographic ing very precise visualization of even the smallest orifices of aspects of its relations. All this is clear, precise and profusely the skull base, using a relatively simple technique and con illustrated.

Andre Leblanc's book was originally conceived to help in even more importance to this remarkable production. the radiologic location of the orifices at the skull base trans The final outcome of this long research is the work now mitting the cranial nerves. With the passage of time it has completed after so much persistent exertion, and also after become a true atlas of anatomy, radiology, computed to so many transient hold-ups that Andre Leblanc has been mography and magnetic resonance imaging, whose final able to overcome, thanks to an unwavering faith in the range far exceeds the initial aims. utility of his work. Having followed the conception of this book from the out Thus it is that collected here, for each cranial nerve, will be set, I am well able to assess thc stringency with which this found its anatomic description, its course and distribution, study has been pursued. Based on everyday radiologic prac its radiologic identification in the different regions it travers tice, Andre Leblanc has perfected a series of methods allow es, a review of its pathology and the computed tomographic ing very precise visualization of even the smallest orifices of aspects of its relations. All this is clear, precise and profusely the skull base, using a relatively simple technique and con illustrated.

Cet ouvrage est un guide précieux pour les otorhinolaryngologiste et les autres spécialistes crâniens; il est un matériel d'enseignement précieux pour une région d'exploration difficile, par exemple, pour une exploration des névralgies temporales, des otalgies, dépistage précoce des neurinomes, otospongioses, cholestéatomes, des lésions tumorales même minimes et ce, dès leurs origines et dès les premiers signes cliniques.