Pediatric Craniopharyngiomas: A Primer for the Skull Base Surgeon.

ABSTRACT: Pediatric craniopharyngioma is a rare sellar-region epithelial tumor that, in spite of its typically benign pathology, has the potential to be clinically devastating, and presents a host of formidable management challenges for the skull base surgeon. Strategies in craniopharyngioma care have been the cause of considerable controversy, with respect to both philosophical and technical issues. Key questions remain unresolved, and include optimizing extent-of-resection goals; the ideal radiation modality and its role as an alternative, adjuvant, or salvage treatment; appropriate indications for expanded endoscopic endonasal surgery as an alternative to transcranial microsurgery; risks and benefits of skull base techniques in a pediatric population; benefits of and indications for intracavitary

SUBMITTER: Graffeo CS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5796826 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature