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Neonatal
craniopharyngioma and inference of tumor inception time: case report and review
of the literature
Arai T, Ohno K, Takada Y, Aoyagi M, Hirakawa K
Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Metropolitan Hospital, Tokyo,
Japan
Background. Craniopharyngioma is a rare neonatal tumor, although it is
the most common tumor of the parasellar region in childhood.
Only a few cases have been antenatally diagnosed.
We report a case of neonatal craniopharyngioma surgically treated after birth
and its inferred tumor inception time.
Case
Description. A routine ultrasound at 33 weeks of gestation revealed a high
echoic mass at the center of the head in this fetus.
The baby was delivered normally at 40 weeks with no abnormal appearance of its
body surface.
Hypotonicity of her lower limbs was observed.
The tumor was totally removed uneventfully by an interhemispheric
translaminaterminalis approach at 8 months after birth.
Conclusion.
A kinetic study of the tumor showed that tumor inception time was on the 45.6th
day of gestation.
The present case is the fourth successful resection of neonatal
craniopharyngioma.
The literature is reviewed.
PMID: 12922047 [PubMed - in process]
Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12922047&dopt=Abstract
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