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Published in: Child's Nervous System 9/2017

01-09-2017 | Original Paper

A reformed surgical treatment modality for children with giant cystic craniopharyngioma

Authors: Wanchun Zhu, Xiang Li, Jintao He, Tao Sun, Chunde Li, Jian Gong

Published in: Child's Nervous System | Issue 9/2017

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Abstract

Objective

Surgical removal plays an important role in treating children’s craniopharyngioma. For a safe and minimally invasive craniotomy, a reformed surgical modality was proposed in this paper by combining the insertion of an Ommaya reservoir system (ORS) by stereotactic puncture, aspiration of cystic fluid in 2-day interval for consecutive 7–10 days, and the delayed tumor resection.

Patients and methods

Eleven patients (aged from 5 to 9 years old) with giant cystic craniopharyngiomas who had undergone the reformed surgical modality during November 2014 and December 2015 were collected as group A. In contrast, seven patients (aged from 5 to 11 years old) who had undergone the traditional directed operation without any prior management from January 2014 to October 2014 were collected into group B. A retrospective analysis was performed for both groups at one institution. The preoperative and postoperative clinical presentations, neuroimaging, early postoperative outcome, and the surgery-related complications of both groups were reviewed.

Results

For group A, the mean value of the maximum tumor diameters shank from 52.36 to 23.82 mm after implementing aspiration of the cystic fluid in 1-day interval for consecutive 8.23 days. Eight patients (72.73%) in group A underwent a gross total resection (GTR), while two (28.57%) patients underwent GTR in group B. The postoperative electrolyte disturbance rate and endocrine disorder rate of group B were significantly higher than those of group A (42.86 vs 36.36%; 71.43 vs 45.45%). Postoperative long-term diabetes insipidus only occurred in one patient of group B, and postoperative visual deterioration occurred in two patients of group B. Besides, one patient of group B died of severe postoperative hypothalamus dysfunction. Patients with residual tumors were applied with additional adjuvant radiotherapy, and no recurrence was observed in follow-up examinations.

Conclusion

A favorable outcome can be achieved by combining the insertion of an ORS by stereotactic puncture, aspiration of cystic fluid in 2-day interval for continuously 7–10 days, and the delayed tumor resection. This combined treatment modality maybe an effective method to treat children with giant cystic craniopharyngiomas.
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Metadata
Title
A reformed surgical treatment modality for children with giant cystic craniopharyngioma
Authors
Wanchun Zhu
Xiang Li
Jintao He
Tao Sun
Chunde Li
Jian Gong
Publication date
01-09-2017
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Child's Nervous System / Issue 9/2017
Print ISSN: 0256-7040
Electronic ISSN: 1433-0350
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-017-3473-3

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