Craniopharyngioma remains a challenging entity for neurosurgeons because of its midline, deep seated location and intimate relationship with critical neurovascular structures
2016
Microsurgical removal of craniopharyngioma: endoscopic and transcranial techniques for complication avoidance
Key concepts
Scholarcy highlights
- Craniopharyngioma remains a challenging entity for neurosurgeons because of its midline, deep seated location and intimate relationship with critical neurovascular structures
- Gross total resection is ideal, the need to reduce surgical morbidity and preserve quality of life has led to a number of neurosurgical approaches which have attained this goal
- We discuss the commonly used approaches for surgical resection and highlight technical considerations to reduce the potential of complications
- We discuss the mutually exclusive underlying genetic lesions in different histopathological subtypes that will likely lead to future treatment options for these tumors
- Puget S, Garnett M, Wray A, Grill J, Habrand J-L, Bodaert N, Zerah M, Bezerra M, Renier D, Pierre-Kahn A, Sainte-Rose C Pediatric craniopharyngiomas: classification and treatment according to the degree of hypothalamic involvement
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