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Recurrent craniopharyngioma with nasopharyngeal extension
Y Taguchi1, K Tanaka, Y Miyakita
1Departments of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan.
Pediatric Neurosurgery
|June 27, 2000
Abstract:
We report the case of a 10-year-old boy having a recurrent craniopharyngioma with nasopharyngeal extension during a course of growth hormone therapy, in whom the nasopharyngeal craniopharyngioma was totally resected despite its extensive growth by using a transbasal approach. There has been no evidence of recurrence during 6 years of follow-up. A literature review was made with respect to nasopharyngeal extension of craniopharyngiomas, and the efficacy of the transbasal approach for those tumors is discussed.