10.1055/b-0040-175452 3 Preprocedure Assessment Prior to Vertebral AugmentationScott Kreiner and Grace Maloney Summary Vertebral compression fractures (VCFs) are common and are increasing in number with the aging of the population….
10.1055/b-0040-175453 4 Physical Examination Findings in Patients with Vertebral Compression FracturesScott Kreiner Summary Certain painful spine conditions justify a more prompt approach to imaging evaluation and the most common of…
10.1055/b-0040-175450 1 History and Introduction to Vertebral AugmentationM.R. Chambers Summary Vertebral augmentation is a category of minimally invasive procedures that have become central in the treatment of pathologic and painful…
10.1055/b-0040-175454 5 Medical Pain Management in Patients with Vertebral Compression FracturesYoung Hoon Kim and Yong-Chul Kim Summary Vertebral compression fractures (VCFs) can result from osteoporosis, trauma, or neoplasm. Among these…
Fig. 7.1 Female, 6 years old. A type Q-CP case. Pre-surgical radiological images. (a, b) MRI revealed that a tumor in the intrasellar and suprasellar region. Partially tumor resection via the…
Fig. 6.1 This was a case of a 7-year-old boy. The tumor cyst expands to the mid-lower portion of the clivus. The operation uses a lateral fissure transtentorial approach. The…
Fig. 5.1 Preoperative MRI of type Q craniopharyngioma in a child. (a) Coronal view showing that the tumor is located beneath the diaphragma sellae and the optic chiasm is pushed…
Fig. 3.1 Pathological manifestation of aCP (a–c). (1) Whorl-like cells, (2) stellate reticulum, (3) palisade-like cells, (4) wet keratin, (5) calcification, (6) cysts 3.3 Papillary Craniopharyngioma (pCP) The typical pathological…
Fig. 9.1 Pathological characteristic of adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma (a–d). (b–d) are higher power view of the boxes 1–3 in (a), respectively. Tumor tongues surrounded by fibrosis showing “stellate reticulum,” “wet” keratin,…
Authors Classification system Comment Yasargil (a) Purely intrasellar-infradiaphragmatic (b) Intra- and suprasellar, infra- and supradiaphragmatic (c) Supradiaphragmatic parachiasmatic, extraventricular (d) Intra- and extraventricular (e) Paraventricular in respect to the third…
