Cranial dermoid and epidermoid cysts.
63 patients with epidermoid and dermoid cysts were treated surgically during the past sixteen years. Total tumour removal was achieved in 65% of cases. Because of their soft and slow growing nature, adjacent subarachnoidal spaces and clefts were filled and in some cases total removal was impossible. Due to the advances in technology mortality and morbidity rates are greatly decreased.
Hacettepe University School of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Ankara, Turkey.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003884:Dermoid Cyst / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D004814:Epidermal Cyst / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D012888:Skull Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*