Surgical Treatment of Hemangioblastoma in the Pituitary Stalk: An Extremely Rare Case

Hemangioblastoma (HBL) in the pituitary stalk is extremely rare. Only 16 such cases have been reported in the past and 5 cases have been treated with surgical procedure. Here, we report surgical case of HBL in the pituitary stalk diagnosed in a 34-year-old woman. The patient underwent a gross-total...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Lim, Jaejoon, Noh, Sunghyun, Cho, Kyung Gi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Yonsei University College of Medicine 2016
Materias:
Technical Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4740549/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26847309
http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2016.57.2.518
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Sumario:Hemangioblastoma (HBL) in the pituitary stalk is extremely rare. Only 16 such cases have been reported in the past and 5 cases have been treated with surgical procedure. Here, we report surgical case of HBL in the pituitary stalk diagnosed in a 34-year-old woman. The patient underwent a gross-total resection via the modified lateral supra-orbital approach. No recurrence was observed in two years after surgery. To our knowledge, this is the 17th case of HBL in the pituitary stalk and the 6th surgical case. If the tumor is symptomatic and the volume is over 5 cubic centimeters as in our case, we recommend that the surgical resection of the HBL in the pituitary stalk is a more safe and reasonable than radiotherapy.

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