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59th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Neurosurgery (DGNC)
3rd Joint Meeting with the Italian Neurosurgical Society (SINch)

German Society of Neurosurgery (DGNC)

1 - 4 June 2008, Würzburg

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Craniopharyngiomas in childhood

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  • corresponding author L. Volpin - Ospedale S.Bortolo, U.O. Neurochirurgia, Vicenza, Italia
  • G. Zambon - Ospedale S.Bortolo, U.O. Neurochirurgia, Vicenza, Italia
  • L. Gazzola - Ospedale S.Bortolo, U.O. Neurochirurgia, Vicenza, Italia
  • M. Piacentino - Ospedale S.Bortolo, U.O. Neurochirurgia, Vicenza, Italia
  • G. P. De Luca - Ospedale S.Bortolo, U.O. Neurochirurgia, Vicenza, Italia
  • U. Fornezza - Ospedale S.Bortolo, U.O. Neurochirurgia, Vicenza, Italia

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie. Società Italiana di Neurochirurgia. 59. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie e.V. (DGNC), 3. Joint Meeting mit der Italienischen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (SINch). Würzburg, 01.-04.06.2008. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2008. DocMO.09.06

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Published: May 30, 2008

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Objective: The aim of this study is to emphasize the role of surgery in successfully removing of craniopharyngiomas. In our Department we have performed 16 resections for suprasellar location during the last 5 years. Three cases were childhood craniopharyngiomas and one was a huge Rathke's cyst. There has been a complete resection in the 3 childhood craniopharyngiomas with a complete recovery with a single operation.

We have shown these 3 cases and all the surgical problems related to them. We have also shown the different characteristics of the Rathke cyst surgery, its constant tendency to regrowth and the impossibility of a complete radical microsurgical excision.