Oxford Handbook of Head and Neck Anatomy

Daniel van Gijn is a Specialist Registrar in Oral and Maxillofacial surgery in the South of England. He is doubly qualified in medicine and dentistry, graduating with honours in both and awarded several prizes for clinical and technical excellence. Daniel has a particular interest in head and neck anatomy and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in this subject. He is a member of the Royal College of Surgeons and has undertaken formal surgical training in London, Oxford, Surrey and South Africa. Prior to specialising purely in surgery of the face, skull and jaws, Daniel gained several years experience in Ear, Nose and Throat surgery, Plastic and reconstructive surgery, Orthopaedic surgery and Neurosurgery.Professor Standring is the current Editor-in-Chief of Gray's Anatomy, Anatomy Development Tutor for the Royal College of Surgeons of England and immediate Past President of the Anatomical Society. She is closely affiliated to King's College and remains an integral part of the anatomy teaching programme to medical and dental undergraduates. She has over 35 years' experience of teaching head and neck anatomy to undergraduate and postgraduate students.

If you want head and neck anatomy distilled down to its essence—this is it...This book will be useful to undergraduates learning anatomy for the first time, but also for trainees specializing in those anatomical areas above the clavicle—who will look back and wish they'd had this text at medical school... Armed with this powerful tome, the pterygopalatine fossa will never again hold such terror, the infamous infratemporal fossa will be laid bare, and the lacrimal lake of despond will dry up. And with this map in hand, a safari in tiger country will be much, much less dangerous.

• 1: The Skull 2: The Mandible 3: The Skullbase 4: The Cranial Nerves 5: The Neck 6: Viscera of the Neck 7: The Pharynx 8: The Larynx 9: The Face, Scalp and Temporal Region 10: The Orbit and its Contents 11: The Mouth 12: The Salivary Glands 13: The Nose and Paranasal Sinuses 14: The Ear 15: Embryology