Intraventricular Craniopharyngiomas —Overcoming Their Relative Inaccessibility: Institutional Experience With a Review of Literature

Conclusion: Purely IVCrs present with raised intracranial pressure, and visual disturbances are less common. Their deep-seated location and limited surgical field-of-view makes minimally invasive endoscopic-assisted surgery most suitable for their excision. The thin-walled cystic lesions may be occasionally adherent to the ependymal wall in close vicinity to the thalamus–hypothalamus complex, making complete excision difficult. Their responsiveness to radiotherapy, often leads to a gratifying long-term outcome.
Source: Frontiers in Neurology - Category: Neurology Source Type: research