title: [A case of intrasellar craniopharyngioma with the symptoms of pituitary apoplexy].
abstract: Craniopharyngiomas account approximately for 2.5% of all intracranial neoplasms. They statistically most often arise in Japanese people (8%) and in children (9%). Despite their typical localization in suprasellar region and their close neighbourhood, 10-20% of them occupy intrasellar space, but only very few grow up as intrasellar cysts. Such localization predisposes to hypothalamus-pituitary-axis dysfunction more often, than other localizations. The symptoms of pituitary apoplexy caused by sudden, intrinsic haemorrhage of intrasellar craniopharyngioma are very rare, because the tumour grows very slowly and its vascular supply is usually poor. A very rare localization, extremely atypical course of disease, interesting intraoperative observations and good results of transsphenoidal tumour removal prompted the authors to present this case report.
authors.affiliation: Kliniki Neurochirurgii Instytutu Chirurgii Urazowej, Ortopedii i Neurochirurgii Centralnego Szpitala Klinicznego Wojskowej Akademii Medycznej, Warszawie.
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Podgórski
authors.forename: S Z
authors.initials: SZ
authors.lastname: Rudnicki
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Potakiewicz
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Delimat
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Siwik
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003397:Craniopharyngioma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010902:Pituitary Gland / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D010911:Pituitary Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D012658:Sella Turcica; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
vernacular_title: Przypadek śródsiodłowego czaszkogardlaka, przebiegajacego z objawami udaru przysadkowego.