...Gaurav Tyagi; Santhosh Kumar S A; Sandeep Kandregula; Radhika Mhatre; Alok Mohan Uppar Introduction: Abscess within a craniopharyngioma (CPG) is extremely rare and only 8 such cases have been reported in literature. Most patients present with hypopituitarism and visual disturbances. We report...

..., considerable experience and acumen are necessary in order to achieve aggressive tumour resection without compromising function [4]. In some cases, a CT is performed to give complementary information, for example, in craniopharyngiomas (CP), it is helpful to see the calcifications. The most common suprasellar...

...Dekui Cheng; Fengyu Yang; Ziji Li; Fan Qv; Wei Liu Introduction: Xanthogranuloma of the sellar region is a rare benign lesion, and there are few cases reported in children. Its histogenesis is controversial, and it is difficult to strictly differentiate it from craniopharyngioma (CP), Rathke’s...

.... The tumor originated at the junction of the adenohypophysis and the pituitary stalk. Although the histopathological diagnosis was adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma, the cyst walls comprising the majority of the tumor were not thin, fragile tissues formed by squamous metaplasia, but were thick and robust...

...Dhaval Shukla The treatment of craniopharyngioma is varied. It ranges from radical excision to direct radiotherapy. As the morbidity of excision is high, more conservative approaches are used. Placement of a catheter and reservoir is one such option for cystic craniopharyngiomas. The positioning...

...Todd C. Hankinson; Nicholas O. Palmeri; Sarah A. Williams; Michelle R. Torok; Cesar A. Serrano; Nicholas K. Foreman; Michael H. Handler; Arthur K. Liu Background: Initial therapy for craniopharyngioma remains controversial. Population-based datasets indicate that traditional algorithms [gross total...

... or of their effectiveness, quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Craniopharyngioma A 10-year-old male presented to us...

...Hiroshi Yokota; Kazuhiro Yokoyama; Toshikazu Nishioka; Satoru Iwasaki; Hiroaki Shimizu; Seiji Kinoshita We report the clinical significance of anterior cerebral artery (ACA) notching on the optic nerve and chiasm in a 3.5-year-old girl with a craniopharyngioma and progressive blindness. She...

...Tae-Young Jung; Shin Jung; Kyung-Sub Moon; In-Young Kim; Sam-Suk Kang; Jae-Hyoo Kim Objective: We reviewed 17 pediatric craniopharyngioma patients, with a special focus on endocrinological outcomes and tumor recurrence with pituitary stalk preservation. Methods: From 1992 to February 2008, 17...

...Woo Young Jang; Kwan-Sung Lee; Byung Chul Son; Sin-Soo Jeun; Yong-Kil Hong; Sang Won Lee; Seung-Ho Yang Background: Controversy continues over the optimal management of recurrent craniopharyngiomas. Our strategy for approaching repeatedly recurrent craniopharyngiomas in pediatric patients has been...

...Andreas K. Filis; Karam Moon; Alan R. Cohen Background: Surgical resection of craniopharyngiomas may be challenging sometimes because of the size, location and tenacity. Simultaneous endoscopic and microsurgical resection is a novel way to approach such lesions. The aim of this report is to discuss...

... resonance imaging demonstrated a cystic intra- and suprasellar mass, isointense on T1WI and hyperintense on T2WI, that enhanced with contrast. There was no radiographic involvement of the pituitary or hypothalamus. The optic chiasm could not be seen. The tumor mass was believed to be a craniopharyngioma...

...Tadanori Tomita; David G. McLone A series of 27 children with craniopharyngiomas is presented. All the craniopharyngiomas were detected by computed tomography, and radical total resection was attempted. Postoperative evaluations were done by a series of computed tomography and magnetic resonance...

...Zvi H. Israel; Shlomo Pomeranz A rare case of intracranial seeding from a craniopharyngioma is presented. A 12-year-old boy underwent radical resection of a suprasellar craniopharyngioma 2 years previously. There had been no evidence of recurrence during follow-up. He became symptomatic 1 week...

...Alain Pierre-Kahn; Christian Sainte-Rose; Dominique Renier A series of 30 children with craniopharyngiomas is presented, analyzing visual sequelae following surgery. All were operated on with the goal of total removal. Surgical routes used were subfrontal prechiasmatic or translamina terminalis...

...D.C. Harwood-Nash The imaging of craniopharyngioma may include plain skull x-rays, computer tomography (CT) scans, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and angiography. Coronal studies are essential to properly define the regional anatomy. The solid or cystic character of the lesion is especially...

...Edward R. Laws, Jr. Transsphenoidal microsurgical removal is appropriate therapy for a significant number of craniopharyngiomas. Favorable factors for the transsphenoidal approach are enlargement of the sella, cystic lesion and preoperative hypopituitarism. A series of 76 operative cases...

...William H. Sweet Craniopharyngiomas, although histologically benign, are usually so intimately associated with the hypothalamus that total extirpation of these tumors was generally followed by death from hypotension and gross endocrine deficiencies. During the first half of the present century...

...Tatsuya Kobayashi; Takayuki Tanaka; Yoshihisa Kida Ten cases of solid craniopharyngioma have been treated safely and effectively by gamma knife for a mean follow-up time of 13.9 months. Gamma radiosurgery was done as an initial radiotherapy to the residual or recurrent tumor after surgery in 8...

...Robert A. Sanford The best management of craniopharyngioma in children remains a controversial subject for pediatric neurosurgeons. The results of a survey completed by 11 pediatric neurosurgeons documenting outcome in 139 children is presented. There were 21 children treated with limited surgery...