Posterior fossa surgery

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Posterior fossa surgery is surgery involving the back the head which contains the cerebellum, an organ responsible for co-ordination, a number of important nerves (the lower cranial nerves), and also the junction between the brain and the spine.

• Brain tumors
• Brain hemorrhages
• Brain vessel abnormalities such as cerebral aneurysms, and various problems that date from childhood, especially

Chiari malformations at the junction of the brain and spine.