Neurosurgical treatment of craniopharyngioma in adults and children: Early and long-term results in a large case series - Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1350-1359

  Mortini, Pietro ^a   Losa, Marco ^a   Pozzobon, Gabriella ^a   Barzaghi, Raffaella ^a   Riva, Marco ^a   Acerno, Stefania ^a   Angius, Diana ^a   Weber, Giovanna ^a   Chiumello, Giuseppe ^a   Giovanelli, Massimo ^a  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Craniopharyngioma; Hypopituitarism diabetes insipidus; Pituitary neoplasm; Pituitary surgery

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; VASOPRESSIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CANCER SURGERY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE FREE INTERVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; GONAD DYSFUNCTION; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH DISORDER; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIQUORRHEA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; MENTAL DISEASE; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; NEUROLEPTIC MALIGNANT SYNDROME; NEUROPATHY; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADICAL RESECTION; RADIOTHERAPY; RECURRENCE RISK; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SEPSIS; SEX; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; THYROID DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VASOPRESSIN BLOOD LEVEL; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; CRANIOTOMY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOSURGERY; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79955670712     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.11.JNS10670     Document Type: Article

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