Intraventricular craniopharyngioma: its characteristics in magnetic resonance imaging and successful total removal.
We experienced a craniopharyngioma in the third ventricle which was removed totally by a staged operation through the lamina terminalis and then through the foramen of Monro using a transventricular approach. In magnetic resonance imaging, chiasmal thickening with pot-belly expansion and bilobed shape of the mass were found, and postoperative magnetic resonance imaging showed indentation of the chiasm and flattening of the floor of the third ventricle.
Fukushima
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Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Japan.
Hirakawa
K
K
Kimura
M
M
Tomonaga
M
M
D000328:Adult; D002551:Cerebral Ventricle Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D003397:Craniopharyngioma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male