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Transsphenoidal removal of craniopharyngioma
1University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville.
Pediatric Neurosurgery
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
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 is presented. Long-term follow-up revealed successful results in 81% of patients.

