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Neuroendoscopy: intraventricular and skull base tumor resection in children

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During the last 30 years, the neurosurgeons have witnessed a revolution in the practice of interventricular surgery. The advent of neuroendoscopy at the end of the 1980s has allowed a minimally invasive management of a very large series of pathologies in pediatric neurosurgery ranging from hydrocephalus to arachnoid cyst to intraventricular tumors. The progresses in the management of hydrocephalus, intracranial cyst, and the fluid filled collection nevertheless has been more rapid and radical due to the simpler equipment that is necessary to perform this kind of surgery. The intraventricular tumors instead have been addressed in a slower way, and for many years, the only endoscopic procedure that was allowed on interventricular tumors was a biopsy associated with the management of hydrocephalus. Only very small tumors have been considered operable for complete removal during many years due to the limitations of the neuroendoscopic equipment and to the small calibers of the working channel. More recently, the advent of new devices and new surgical techniques are offering new perspectives on the possibility of intraventricular tumor surgery in children. In this review, we describe the historical perspective of the learning curve of intraventricular tumor surgery under neuroendoscopic control and try to offer a view of the future perspective in the removal of larger intraventricular tumors, analyzing the main indications for intraventricular endoscopic tumor surgery. We offer as well an historical perspective of the evolution of skull base surgery and endonasal transsphenoidal approach for skull-based tumors in children. This kind of surgery that has acquired widespread acceptance for many pathologies in adult age has diffused more slowly in pediatric neurosurgery due to the anatomical limitation observed in these age range. Also in this field, the slow evolution of the technique and of the technology available to neurosurgeons has allowed a very significant expansion of indication for the minimally invasive removal of skull base tumors in children.

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    Maria Allegra Cinalli

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    Suhas Malineni & Chandrashekhar Deopujari

  3. Pediatric Neurosurgery Unit, Department of Pediatric Neurosciences, Santobono-Pausilipon Children’s Hospital (AORN), Via Mario Fiore N. 6, 80129, Naples, Italy

    Pietro Spennato & Giuseppe Cinalli

  4. ENT Surgery, Bombay Hospital, Mumbai, India

    Sai Spoorthy Nayak

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Maria Allegra Cinalli wrote the first and largest part of the paper, Dr Suhas Malineni wrote the second shorter part of the paper, dr Pietro Spennato critically reviewed the manuscript, dr Sai Spoorthi Nayak contributed iconographic material and critically reviewed the manuscript, Dr Giuseppe Cinalli critically reviewed the manuscript, Dr Chandrashekhar Deopujary inspired the manuscript and critically reviewed it.

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Cinalli, M.A., Malineni, S., Spennato, P. et al. Neuroendoscopy: intraventricular and skull base tumor resection in children. Childs Nerv Syst 39, 2737–2756 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-023-06110-z

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