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The endoscopic endonasal approach for the management of craniopharyngiomas: a series of 103 patients: Clinical article by Luigi Maria Cavallo; Giorgio Frank; Paolo Cappabianca; Domenico Solari; Diego Mazzatenta; Alessandro Villa; Matteo Zoli; Alfonso Iodice D'Enza; Felice Esposito; Ernesto Pasquini is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Object Despite their benign histological appearance, craniopharyngiomas can be considered a challenge for the neurosurgeon and a possible source of poor prognosis for the patient. With the widespread use of the endoscope in endonasal surgery, this route has been proposed over the past decade as an alternative technique for the removal of craniopharyngiomas. ## Methods The authors retrospectively analyzed data from a series of 103 patients who underwent the endoscopic endonasal approach at two institutions (Division of Neurosurgery of the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy, and Division of Neurosurgery of the Bellaria Hospital, Bologna, Italy), between January 1997 and December 2012, for the removal of infra- and/or supradiaphragmatic craniopharyngiomas. Twenty-nine patients (28.2%) had previously been surgically treated. ## Results The authors achieved overall gross-total removal in 68.9% of the cases: 78.9% in purely infradiaphragmatic lesions and 66.3% in lesions involving the supradiaphragmatic space. Among lesions previously treated surgically, the gross-total removal rate was 62.1%. The overall improvement rate in visual disturbances was 74.7%, wher
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- Author
- Luigi Maria Cavallo; Giorgio Frank; Paolo Cappabianca; Domenico Solari; Diego Mazzatenta; Alessandro Villa; Matteo Zoli; Alfonso Iodice D'Enza; Felice Esposito; Ernesto Pasquini
- Publisher
- Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group (JNSPG)
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)