Exclusively endoscopic management of complicated pineal cysts in young children: Definitive treatment through single burr-hole technique.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The management of complicated symptomatic pineal cysts in the pediatric population is challenging and variable. Surgical management may include treatment of hydrocephalus alone, or direct treatment of the cyst with or without direct hydrocephalus management. This is typically done through craniotomy-based microsurgical approaches to the pineal region or an endoscopic transventricular approach.

Methods

We present a stepwise minimally invasive technique to treat complicated pineal cysts in young children associated with an obstructive hydrocephalus in a single procedure through third ventriculostomy combined with an intraventricular marsupialization of the pineal cyst through a single burr-hole using stereotactic navigation.

Results

Two young patients with ov

SUBMITTER: Hanna B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9282818 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature