Fig. 15.1 After the small dural opening, the cyst content can be drained. *Arachnoid cyst content 15.3 Surgical Treatment of Sellar or Sellar/Suprasellar Arachnoid Cysts When needed, the surgical treatment…
Authors Year No. of patients Technique Dose (Gy) FU (months) Tumor control (%) Late toxicity (%) Carella et al. [9] 1982 57 EBRT 55–60 NA 95 NA Forbes and Goldberg…
Type of cyst Location Compression of the nervous structures Hydrocephalus Indication to transcranial surgery Transcranial approaches Site of fenestration and CSF drainage Intrasellar Sella turcica with suprasellar extension None or…
Authors Patients no Type of RT Median dose Gy Follow-up months Tumor control (%) Cummings et al. [7] 10 CRT 50 40 41 at 5 years Chetiyawardana [8] 14 CRT…
Fig. 8.1 Illustration of the marsupialization of the cyst: the arrow represents the trajectory of the endoscope during the surgical procedure performed in four basic steps: 1 approach to the…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Paolo Cappabianca, Luigi Maria Cavallo, Oreste de Divitiis and Felice Esposito (eds.)Midline Skull Base Surgery10.1007/978-3-319-21533-4_24 24. Introduction Paolo Cappabianca1 , Marialaura Del Basso De Caro2 and Alessandra D’Amico3 (1) Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosciences, Reproductive and Odontostomatological…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Paolo Cappabianca, Luigi Maria Cavallo, Oreste de Divitiis and Felice Esposito (eds.)Midline Skull Base Surgery10.1007/978-3-319-21533-4_19 19. The Expanded Endonasal Approach to Skull Base Meningiomas Amin Kassam1 , Martin Corsten2 and Richard Rovin1 (1) Department of Neurosurgery,…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Paolo Cappabianca, Luigi Maria Cavallo, Oreste de Divitiis and Felice Esposito (eds.)Midline Skull Base Surgery10.1007/978-3-319-21533-4_18 18. Introduction Oreste de Divitiis1 , Carmela Chiaramonte1 and Gianluigi Califano1 (1) Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosciences, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences,…
Authors Patient no Type of RT Median dose Gy Follow-up months Tumor control (%) Flickinger et al. [10] 21 CRT 60 7.3 years 95 at 10 years Regine et al….
Authors Type of irradiation Type of adenoma Patients (no) Follow-up median (years) Local control (%) Late toxicity (%) Visual Hypopituitarism Grigsby et al. (1989) [1] CRT NFA, SA 121 11.7…
