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Craniopharyngiomas in children. Long-term effects of conservative surgical procedures combined with radiation therapy.
Journal of Neurosurgery 1990 October
Thirty-seven patients with craniopharyngioma were treated at Children's Hospital, Boston, between 1972 and 1981, the mean follow-up period now being 10.5 years. Twenty of these patients are old enough to have finished high school and have been queried about their college or job activity. None of the four patients who had undergone radical excision of their tumor and who had reached the age of finishing high school was able to work independently. Among the 16 patients who reached this age and who were treated by more conservative operations and irradiation or irradiation alone, job performance or college attendance varied considerably, indicating that psychosocial impairment occurred in this group, but suggesting that the risk was less. The rate of tumor recurrence or of failure to respond to treatment was 57% (four of a total of seven survivors) following radical surgery and 7% (two of 27 survivors) after conservative operations and irradiation. The overall mortality rate was 8%; the causes of the three deaths were: "hypothalamic crisis" 1 year after radical resection; progressive tumor growth despite two attempts at resection and irradiation; and a brain-stem glioma in the field of irradiation 8 years after treatment.
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