title: Successful management of a symptomatic fusiform dilatation of the internal carotid artery following surgery of childhood craniopharyngioma.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The development of fusiform dilatation of internal carotid artery is one of the vascular complications that can follow surgery for craniopharyngioma and other suprasellar tumours in children, but its pathogenesis and the line of management are still controversial.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report a child who presented with a giant fusiform aneurysm involving the supraclinoid portion of the internal carotid artery after total removal of a craniopharyngioma and review the literature on related cases. The treatment of this phenomenon and its possible pathogenesis are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Philipps University, Baldingerstrasse, 35033, Marburg, Germany. sure@post.med.uni-marburg.de
authors.forename: Wuttipong
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Tirakotai
authors.forename: Ulrich
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Sure
authors.forename: Ludwig
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Benes
authors.forename: Hisham
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Aboul-Enein
authors.forename: Dirk Michael
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Schulte
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Riegel
authors.forename: Helmut
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bertalanffy
mesh_terms: D000783:Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D002340:Carotid Artery Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D002343:Carotid Artery, Internal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D002648:Child; D003397:Craniopharyngioma / Q000601:surgery*; D004108:Dilatation, Pathologic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010911:Pituitary Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome