Different approaches in radiation therapy of craniopharyngioma

Frontiers in Endocrinology

Volumn 2, Issue DEC, 2011, Pages

  Kortmann, Rolf Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Craniopharyngioma; Post operative; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874352181     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2011.00100     Document Type: Review

References (45)

1. Amendola, B. E., Wolf, A., Coy, S. R., and Amendola, M. A. (2003). Role of radiosurgery in craniopharyn-giomas: a preliminary report. Med. Pediatr. Oncol. 41, 123-127.
2. Barlas, O., Bayindir, C., and Can, M. (2000). Interstitial irradiation for craniopharyngioma. Acta Neurochir. (Wien) 142, 389-395.
3. Becker, G., Kortmann, R. D., Skalej, M., and Bamberg, M. (1999). The role of radiotherapy in the treatment of craniopharyngioma -indications, results, side effects. Front. Radiat. Ther. Oncol. 33, 100-113.
4. Beltran, C., Roca, M., and Merchant, T. E. (2011). On the benefits and risks of proton therapy in pediatric cran-iopharyngioma. Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. [Epub ahead of print].
5. Blackburn, T. P., Doughty, D., and Plow-man, P. N. (1999). Stereotactic intra-cavitary therapy of recurrent cys-tic craniopharyngioma by instilla-tion of 90yttrium. Br.J. Neurosurg. 13, 359-365.
6. Carmel, P. W., Antunes, J. L., and Chang, C. H. (1982). Craniopharyn-giomas in children. Neurosurgery 11, 382-389.
7. Chiou, S. M., Lunsford, L. D., Niranjan, A., Kondziolka, D., and Flickinger, J. C. (2001). Stereotactic radio-surgery of residual or recurrent craniopharyngioma, after surgery, with or without radiation therapy. Neuro-oncology 3, 159-166.
8. Chung, W. Y., Pan, D. H., Shiau, C. Y., Guo, W. Y., and Wang, L. W. (2000). Gamma knife radiosurgery for craniopharyngiomas. J. Neuro-surg. 93(SUPPL. 3), 47-56.
9. Combs, S. E., Thilmann, C., Huber, P. E., Hoess, A., Debus, J., and Schulz-Ertner, D. (2007). Achieve-ment of long-term local con-trol in patients with craniopharyn-giomas using high precision stereo-tactic radiotherapy. Cancer 109, 2308-2314.
10. Derrey, S., Blond, S., Reyns, N., Touzet, G., Carpentier, P., Gauthier, H., and Dhellemmes, P. (2008). Manage-ment of cystic craniopharyngiomas with stereotactic endocavitary irra-diation using colloidal 186Re: a retrospective study of 48 consec-utive patients. Neurosurgery 63, 1045-1052; discussion 1052-1053.
11. Fahlbusch, R., Honegger, J., Paulus, W., Huk, W., and Buchfelder, M. (1999). Surgical treatment of cranio-pharyngiomas: experience with 168 patients. J. Neurosurg. 90, 237-250.
12. Fitzek, M. M., Linggood, R. M., Adams, J., and Munzenrider, J. E. (2006). Combined proton and pho-ton irradiation for craniopharyn-gioma: long-term results of the early cohort of patients treated at Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory and Massachusetts General Hospital. Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 64, 1348-1354.
13. Flickinger, J. C., Lunsford, L. D., Singer, J., Cano, E. R., and Deutsch, M. (1990). Megavoltage external beam irradiation of craniopharyngiomas: analysis of tumor control and mor-bidity. Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 19, 117-122.
14. Habrand, J. L., Ganry, O., Couanet, D., Rouxel, V., Levy-Piedbois, C., Pierre-Kahn, A., and Kalifa, C. (1999). The role of radiation therapy in the man-agement of craniopharyngioma: a 25-year experience and review of the literature. Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 44, 255-263.
15. Hasegawa, T., Kondziolka, D., Hadji-panayis, C. G., and Lunsford, L. D. (2004). Management of cystic cran-iopharyngiomas with phosphorus-32 intracavitary irradiation. Neuro-surgery 54, 813-822.
16. Hashizume, C., Mori, Y., Kobayashi, T., Shibamoto, Y., Nagai, A., and Hayashi, N. (2010). Stereotactic radiotherapy using Novalis for craniopharyngioma adjacent to optic pathways. J. Neurooncol. 98, 239-247.
17. Hetelekidis, S., Barnes, P. D., Tao, M. L., Fischer, E. G., Schneider, L., Scott, R. M., and Tarbell, N. J. (1993). 20-Year experience in childhood cran-iopharyngioma. Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 27, 189-195.
18. Kanesaka, N., Mikami, R., Nakayama, H., Nogi, S., Tajima, Y., Nakajima, N., Wada, J., Miki, T., Haraoka, J., Okubo, M., Sugahara, S., and Tokuuye, K. (2011). Preliminary results of fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy after cyst drainage for craniopharyngioma in adults. Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.05.014. [Epub ahead of print].
19. Karavitaki, N., Brufani, C., Warner, J. T., Adams, C. B., Richards, P., Ansorge, O., Shine, B., Turner, H. E., and Wass, J. A. (2005). Craniopharyngiomas in children and adults: systematic analysis of 121 cases with long-term follow-up. Clin. Endocrinol. (Oxf.) 62, 397-409.
20. Kobayashi, T., Kida, Y., Mori, Y., and Hasegawa, T. (2005). Long-term results of gamma knife surgery for the treatment of craniopharyn-gioma in 98 consecutive cases. J. Neurosurg. 103(Suppl.), 482-488.
21. Lee, M., Kalani, M. Y., Cheshier, S., Gibbs, I. C., Adler, J. R., and Chang, S. D. (2008). Radiation ther-apy and CyberKnife radiosurgery in the management of craniopharyn-giomas. Neurosurg. Focus 24, E4.
22. Lin, L. L., El Naqa, I., Leonard, J. R., Park, T. S., Hollander, A. S., Michalski, J. M., and Mansur, D. B. (2008). Long-term outcome in children treated for craniopharyngioma with and with-out radiotherapy. J. Neurosurg. Pedi-atr. 1, 126-130.
23. Luu, Q. T., Loredo, L. N., Archambeau, J. O., Yonemoto, L. T., Slater, J. M., and Slater, J. D. (2006). Fractionated proton radiation treatment for pedi-atric craniopharyngioma: prelimi-nary report. Cancer J. 12, 155-159.
24. Mark, R. J., Lutge, W. R., Shimizu, K. T., Tran, L. M., Selch, M. T., and Parker, R. G. (1995). Craniopharyngioma: treatment in the CT and MR imag-ing era. Radiology 197, 195-198.
25. Merchant, T. E., Kiehna, E. N., Kun, L. E., Mulhern, R. K., Li, C., Xiong, X., Boop, F. A., and Sanford, R. A. (2006). Phase II trial of con-formal radiation therapy for pedi-atric patients with craniopharyn-gioma and correlation of surgical factors and radiation dosimetry with change in cognitive function. J. Neu-rosurg. 104, 94-102.
26. Merchant, T. E., Kiehna, E. N., Sanford, R. A., Mulhern, R. K., Thompson, S. J., and Wilson, M. W. (2002). Cran-iopharyngioma: the St. Jude Chil-dren's Research Hospital experience 1984-2001. Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 53, 533-542.
27. Minniti, G., Esposito, V., Amichetti, M., and Enrici, R. M. (2009). The role of fractionated radiother-apy and radiosurgery in the man-agement of patients with cranio-pharyngioma. Neurosurg. Rev. 32, 125-132.
28. Minniti, G., Saran, F., Traish, D., Soomal, R., Sardell, S., Gonsalves, A., Ashley, S., Warrington, J., Burke, K., Mosleh-Shirazi, A., and Brada, M. (2007). Fractionated stereotactic conformal radiotherapy following conservative surgery in the control of cranio-pharyngiomas. Radiother. Oncol. 82, 90-95.
29. Mokry, M. (1999). Craniopharyn-giomas: a six year experience with Gamma Knife radiosurgery. Stereo-tact. Funct. Neurosurg. 72(Suppl. 1), 140-149.
30. Moon, S. H., Kim, I. H., Park, S. W., Kim, I., Hong, S., Park, C. I., Wang, K. C., and Cho, B. K. (2005). Early adju-vant radiotherapy toward long-term survival and better quality of life for craniopharyngiomas-astudyin single institute. Childs Nerv. Syst. 21, 799-807.
31. Pemberton, L. S., Dougal, M., Magee, B., and Gattamaneni, H. R. (2005). Experience of external beam radio-therapy given adjuvantly or at relapse following surgery for cranio-pharyngioma. Radiother. Oncol. 77, 99-104.
32. Prasad, D., Steiner, M., and Steiner, L. (1995). Gamma knife surgery for craniopharyngioma. Acta Neurochir. (Wien) 134, 167-176.
33. Rajan, B., Ashley, S., Gorman, C., Jose, C. C., Horwich, A., Bloom, H. J., Marsh, H., and Brada, M. (1993). Craniopharyngioma-along-term results following limited surgery and radiotherapy. Radiother. Oncol. 26, 1-10.
34. Regine, W. F., Mohiuddin, M., and Kramer, S. (1993). Long-term results of pediatric and adult cranio-pharyngiomas treated with com-bined surgery and radiation. Radiat. Oncol. 27, 13-21.
35. Selch, M. T., DeSalles, A. A., Wade, M., Lee, S. P., Solberg, T. D., Wal-lace, R. E., Ford, J. M., Rubino, G., Cabatan-Awang, C., and Withers, H. R. (2002). Initial clinical results of stereotactic radiotherapy for the treatment of craniopharyngiomas. Technol. Cancer Res. Treat. 1, 51-60.
36. Stripp, D. C., Maity, A., Janss, A. J., Belasco, J. B., Tochner, Z. A., Gold-wein, J. W., Moshang, T., Rorke, L. B., Phillips, P. C., Sutton, L. N., and Shu, H. K. (2004). Surgery with or without radiation therapy in the management of craniopharyn-giomas in children and young adults. Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 58, 714-720.
37. Sung, D. I., Chang, C. H., and Harisiadis, L. (1981). Treatment results of craniopharyngiomas. Can-cer 47, 847-852.
38. Tishler, R. B., Loeffler, J. S., Lunsford, L. D., Duma, C., Alexander, E. III, Kooy, H. M., and Flickinger, J. C. (1993). Tolerance of cranial nerves of the cavernous sinus to radio-surgery. Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 27, 215-221.
39. Tomita, T., and Bowman, R. M. (2005). Craniopharyngiomas in children: surgical experience at Children's Memorial Hospital. Childs Nerv. Syst. 21, 729-746.
40. Ulfarsson, E., Lindquist, C., Roberts, M., Rahn, T., Lindquist, M., Thoren, M., and Lippitz, B. (2002). Gamma knife radiosurgery for cranio-pharyngiomas: long-term results in the first Swedish patients. J. Neurosurg. 97(Suppl.), 613-622.
41. Varlotto, J. M., Flickinger, J. C., Kondzi-Olka, D., Lunsford, L. D., and Deutsch, M. (2002). External beam irradiation of craniopharyngiomas: long-term analysis of tumor control and morbidity. Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 54, 492-499.
42. Voges, J., Sturm, V., Lehrke, R., Treuer, H., Gauss, C., and Berthold, F. (1997). Cystic craniopharyngioma: long-term results after intracavi-tary irradiation with stereotacti-cally applied colloidal beta-emitting radioactive sources. Neurosurgery 40, 263-270.
43. Wen, B. C., Hussey, D. H., Staples, J., Hitchon, P. W., Jani, S. K., Vigliotti, A. P., and Doornbos, J. F. (1989). A comparison of the roles of surgery and radiation therapy in the management of craniopharyn-giomas. Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 16, 17-24.
44. Winkfield, K. M., Linsenmeier, C., Yock, T. I., Grant, P. E., Yeap, B. Y., But-ler, W. E., and Tarbell, N. J. (2009). Surveillance of craniopharyngioma cyst growth in children treated with proton radiotherapy. Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 73, 716-721.
45. Yu, X., Liu, Z., and Li, S. (2000). Combined treatment with stereo-tactic intracavitary irradiation and gamma knife surgery for cran-iopharyngiomas. Stereotact. Funct. Neurosurg. 75, 117-122.