[Rehabilitation of young craniopharyngioma patients].
The course of rehabilitation in 11 young patients with craniopharyngeoma was investigated. With intelligence well-preserved, neuropsychological diagnosis revealed impairments in rate and persistence in virtually all patients; behaviour disorders were present in 8 of the 11 patients, with efforts to distinguish psychoorganic from psychoreactive causality however not always successful. The neuropsychological deficits and behavioural deviations mentioned, rather than complications of a medical nature (1 of 11), resulted in only 2 patients having been able to maintain their premorbid educational/vocational status. The rehabilitative outcomes obtained in patients with clear-cut indications of diencephalic lesion (among them variations in vigilance, polyphagia, adipsia) had been unsatisfactory, whereas, in the other behaviourally disordered patients, successful outcomes were achieved by a therapeutic approach tailored to the specific needs of the individual condition.
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003397:Craniopharyngioma / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D004519:Education, Special; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007016:Hypophysectomy; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000534:rehabilitation; D008297:Male; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities; D010910:Pituitary Irradiation; D010911:Pituitary Neoplasms / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational / Q000379:methods
Rehabilitation jugendlicher Kraniopharyngeom-Patienten.