Successful management of a symptomatic fusiform dilatation of the internal carotid artery following surgery of childhood craniopharyngioma.
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.
Tirakotai
Wuttipong
W
Department of Neurosurgery, Philipps University, Baldingerstrasse, 35033, Marburg, Germany. sure@post.med.uni-marburg.de
Sure
Ulrich
U
Benes
Ludwig
L
Aboul-Enein
Hisham
H
Schulte
Dirk Michael
DM
Riegel
Thomas
T
Bertalanffy
Helmut
H
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