Craniopharyngiomas - Classification and Surgical Treatment.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- List of Contributors -- History and Epidemiology of Craniopharyngioma -- Yuntao Lu* -- HISTORY AND TERMINOLOGY -- EPIDEMIOLOGY AND DEMOGRAPHY -- CLINICAL MANIFESTATION -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- The Pituitary Gland and Etiology of Craniopharyngioma -- Yuntao Lu* -- INTRODUCTION -- MORPHOLOGY AND CYTOLOGY OF THE PITUITARY GLAND -- Anatomical Conceptions -- Cytology of the Pituitary Gland -- Adenohypophysis Fig. (2) -- Pars Tuberalis -- Pars Intermedia -- Neurohypophysis -- Pathological Influence of Pituitary Stalk Dissection -- Pharyngeal Hypophysis -- EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE PITUITARY GLAND AND ITS ACCESSORY STRUCTURES -- Embryonic Development: Pituitary Gland -- Embryonic Development: Pituitary Capsule -- ORIGIN OF CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA -- Residual Cells of Craniopharyngeal Duct [4, 22, 31, 32, 37] -- Residual Rathke's Pouch Cells -- Cellular Metaplastic Theory -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Pathological Classification of Craniopharyngioma and its Molecular Aspects -- Xiao-rong Yan* and Yi Liu -- PATHOLOGICAL TYPES -- IMAGING FEATURES OF CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA -- DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS -- HARD STRUCTURES IN CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA (CALCIFICATION, OSSIFICATION AND DENTAL TISSUE) -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Current Therapeutic Situation -- Yi Liu* -- MANAGEMENT DURING THE PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD -- Preoperative Evaluation -- Preoperative Management -- Hydrocephalus and Increased Intracranial Pressure -- Hormone Replacement Therapy -- Postoperative Management -- Anti-Epileptic -- Hormone Replacement Therapy -- Electrolyte Disturbances -- Diabetes Insipidus -- Sudden Disturbance in Consciousness -- Other Complications -- SURGICAL TREATMENT FOR CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA -- Transcranial Approach -- Transsphenoidal Approach.

Prognostic Factors for Tumor Recurrence -- Long-term Outcomes of Craniopharyngioma After Resection -- RADIOTHERAPY FOR CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA -- External Beam Irradiation -- Stereotactic Radiotherapy -- Proton Beam Therapy -- Internal Irradiation (Brachytherapy) -- Stereotactic Radiosurgery -- Radiation-induced Disturbances in Hypothalamic Pituitary Function -- CHEMOTHERAPY FOR CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA -- Intracavitary Chemotherapy -- Systemic Chemotherapy -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- Experimental Craniopharyngioma Research -- Guang-long Huang1,* and Jie Zhou2 -- INTRODUCTION -- CELL CULTURE AND TUMORIGENICITY IN VIVO -- Cell Culture in Vitro -- Tumorigenicity In Vivo -- CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA AND INFLAMMATION -- CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA AND THE EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION (EMT) -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Anatomy Based on Pterional Approach and its Extension Approach for Surgery of Craniopharyngioma -- Yuntao Lu -- PTERIONAL APPROACH AND ITS EXTENSION -- Historical Overview -- Position and Surgical Technique -- Anatomical Figures (Figs. 1-8) -- PTERIONAL APPROACH WITH SUB-TEMPORAL EXTENSION -- Anatomical Figures (Figs. 9-16) -- SURGERY OF CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Anatomy Based on Interhemispheric Approach for Surgery of Craniopharyngioma -- Yuntao Lu* -- FRONTOBASAL INTERHEMISPHERIC APPROACH -- Historical Overview -- Position and Surgical Technique -- Anatomical Figures (Figs. 1-9) -- TRANSCALLOSAL AND INTERFONIX APPROACH -- Historical Overview -- Position and Surgical Technique -- Approach Figures (Figs. 10-15) -- SURGERY FOR CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Anatomy Based on Transspenoidal Approaches for Surgery of Craniopharyngioma -- Yuntao Lu* -- TRANSNASAL TRANSSHPENOIDAL APPROACH AND EXTENSIONS.

Historical Overview -- Position and Surgical Technique -- Approach Figures (Figs. 1-14) -- SURGERY OF CRANIOPHAYRNGIOMA -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Craniopharyngioma Classification: History and its Merit -- Yuntao Lu* and Jun Pan -- HITSTORICAL REVIEWS OF CLASSIFICATION -- GENERAL CLASSIFICATION AND ITS ADVANTAGES AND SHORTCOMINGS -- ASPS AND FOUR SEGEMENTS OF THE PITUITARY STALK -- TOPOGRAPHIC CLASSIFICATION BASED ON THE RELEVANT PARASELLAR MEMBRANES -- ID Pattern -- EA Pattern -- IA Pattern -- SA Pattern -- CLINICAL ANALYSIS -- Infra-Diaphragmatic Tumor -- Suprasellar Extraventricular Tumor -- Extra- and Intra-Ventricular Tumor -- Trans-infundibular Tumor -- Infundibulo-tuberal Tumor -- Comparison of Cases Between Adults and Children -- SURGICAL CLASSIFICATION ("QST" CLASSIFICATION) -- BASIC PRINCIPLES OF OPERATIVE APPROACH SELECTION -- Common Surgical Approach -- Approach Selection Based on Surgical Classification -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Subdiaphragmatic Craniopharyngioma (Type "Q") -- Jun Pan* -- DEFINITION, INCIDENCE AND TUMOR TOPOGRAPHY -- NEUROIMAGING -- MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF ID-CP -- CLINICAL MANIFESTATION OF ID-CP -- ENDOCRNINE EVALUATION -- SURGICAL AIMS AND STRATEGY -- SPECIAL CONSIDERATION IN THE MANAGEMENT OF ID-CP -- SELECTION OF SURGICAL APPROACH -- SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY AND SKILL -- Transsphenoidal Approach -- Trans-cranial Approach -- The Relationship Between the Diaphragmatic Sellae and Tumor Fig. (17) -- PATHOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS -- Outcomes and Complications -- Surgical Extension -- Tumor Recurrence -- Visual Outcome -- Endocrine Sequelae -- Postoperative Hypothalamic Status -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Subarachnoid Cisternal Craniopharyngioma (Type "S") -- Jun Pan* -- DEFINITION.

ANATOMICAL LOCATION OF THE TUMOR -- NEUROIMAGING OF SUBARACHNOID CPS -- CLINICAL PRESENTATION OF SUBARACHNOID CPS -- SURGICAL CONSIDERATION -- SURGICAL DIFFICULTY DEGRADING -- SURGICAL APPROACH SELECTION -- SURGICAL TECHNIQUES -- PROGNOSIS -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- Suprasellar Infundibulo-Tuberal Craniopharyngioma (Type "T") -- Jun Pan* -- DEFINITION OF "INFUNDIBULO-TUBER CP" -- Relationship Between the Tumor and Third Ventricular Floor -- DEMOGRAPHIC INCIDENCE -- CLNICAL MANIFESTATION -- NEUROIMAGING -- SURGICAL TREATMENT -- Overview -- Evaluation of Surgical Risk -- Surgical Approach Selection -- Surgical Techniques -- Techniques of the Trans-terminalis Approach -- AcoA Complex -- PS -- EVALUATION OF THE EXTENT OF SURGICAL REMOVAL -- RISK FACTORS FOR RECURRENCE -- PROGNOSIS -- Prognostic Evaluation Methods -- Endocrine -- Hypothalamus -- Visual -- Neuropsychological and Cognitive/Functional Outcome -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Intraventricular Craniopharyngioma? -- Jun Pan* and Yuntao Lu -- INTRAVENTRICULAR CP (IVC) DEFINITION -- EMBRYONIC THEORY OF IVC ORIGIN -- DEMOGRAPHY, INCIDENCE AND CLINICAL PRESENTATION -- NEUROIMAGING -- SURGICAL REMOVAL OF IVCS -- Surgical Strategy -- Stratification of the 3rd VF and its Relationship with CP -- Approach Selection -- CASE PRESENTATION -- Case No. 1 (Male Patient, 46 Years Old) -- Clinical Manifestation -- Physical Examination -- Chemical Examination -- Neuroimaging Study -- Conventional MRI -- Surgery -- Pathology Study -- Postoperative Course -- Case No. 2 (Boy, 7 Years Old) -- Clinical Manifestation -- Physical Examination -- Chemical Examination -- Neuroimaging Study -- Surgery -- Pathology Study -- Postoperative Course -- Case No. 3 (Woman, 50 Years Old, Recurrent Case) -- Clinical Manifestation -- Physical Examination.

Chemical Examination -- Neuroimaging Study -- Surgery -- Pathology Study -- Postoperative Course -- Case No. 4 (Man, 45 Years Old) -- Clinical Manifestation -- Physical Examination -- Chemical Examination -- Neuroimaging Study -- Surgery -- Pathology Study -- Postoperative Course -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Infra-sellar and Nasopharyngeal Craniopharyngioma -- Jun Pan* -- INTRODUCTION -- CLINICAL MANIFESTATION -- DIAGNOSIS AND DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS -- SURGICAL TREATMENT -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Surgical Treatment of Recurrent Craniopharyngioma -- Jun Pan* -- INTRODUCTION -- RECURRENCE PATTERNS OF CPS -- Recurrence of Subdiaphragmatic CP -- Recurrence of Suprasellar 3rd VF Tumors -- CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF RECURRENT CPS -- THERAPEUTIC STRTEGY FOR RECURRENT CP -- Surgical Techniques for Recurrent CPs -- PROGNOSIS OF RECURRENT CPS -- CONFLICT OF INTEREST -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Hypopituitarism in Craniopharyngioma -- Chun-ling Ye1,* and Jun-xiang Peng2 -- LABORATORY EXAMINATION METHODS OF PITUITARY HORMONES -- Basal Anterior Pituitary Hormone Assays -- Dynamic Tests of Anterior Pituitary Function -- Assessing the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Axis -- Assessing the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Axis -- Assessing Growth Hormone Reserve -- Assessing the Pituitary-gonadal Axis -- Posterior Pituitary Assessment -- CLINICAL MANIFESTATION OF PANHYPOPITUITARISM -- ENDOCRINOLOGICAL EVALUATION BEFORE AND AFTER SURGERY -- Follow-up -- TREATMENT -- Hormone Replacement Therapy -- ACTH Deficiency -- TSH Deficiency -- LH/FSH Deficiency -- Testosterone Cipionate or Testosterone Enanthate Replacement -- Replacement Therapy for LH and FSH Deficiency (women) -- GH Deficiency -- Vasopressin Deficiency -- THE FUTURE -- Hypopituitarism Patterns of Adult Craniopharyngioma.

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