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Child's Nervous System
Published in: Child's Nervous System 8-9/2005

01-08-2005 | Special Annual Issue

Childhood craniopharyngioma: Vancouver experience

Authors: Juliette Hukin, Johann Visser, Michael Sargent, Karen Goddard, Chris Fryer, Paul Steinbok

Published in: Child's Nervous System | Issue 8-9/2005

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Abstract

Objective

To present our institution’s experience in the management of childhood craniopharyngioma since 1982.

Methods

We retrospectively reviewed the records of all children diagnosed with craniopharyngioma at our children’s hospital from its opening in 1982 through to 2003. One neuroradiologist systematically reviewed the neuroimaging. Kaplan–Meier curves were used to analyze the progression-free survival and the overall survival from the time of the first definitive intervention.

Conclusions

Most children diagnosed with craniopharyngioma are long-term survivors. Survivors suffer from multiple deficits in the long term. A conservative surgical and radiotherapeutic approach and avoiding interventions that are known to cause severe morbidity may minimize these. The use of intracystic bleomycin is a strategy that allows the delay of more aggressive therapies in select patients.
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Metadata
Title
Childhood craniopharyngioma: Vancouver experience
Authors
Juliette Hukin
Johann Visser
Michael Sargent
Karen Goddard
Chris Fryer
Paul Steinbok
Publication date
01-08-2005
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Child's Nervous System / Issue 8-9/2005
Print ISSN: 0256-7040
Electronic ISSN: 1433-0350
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-005-1220-7

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