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Frontotemporal Approach

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Midline Skull Base Surgery

Abstract

“Craniopharyngioma” is the name introduced by Cushing for tumors derived “from epithelial rests ascribable to an imperfect closure of the hypophysial or craniopharyngeal duct” [12]. It may arise anywhere along the craniopharyngeal duct: 4 % are purely intrasellar, 21 % are sellar-suprasellar, and 75 % are suprasellar alone, often with extension up into the third ventricle [24].

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    Oreste de Divitiis MD, Crescenzo Capone MD, Teresa Somma MD & Paolo Cappabianca MS

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de Divitiis, O. et al. (2016). Frontotemporal Approach. In: Cappabianca, P., Cavallo, L., de Divitiis, O., Esposito, F. (eds) Midline Skull Base Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21533-4_11

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