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Volume 18 No 1 (2020)
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Collod Cyst; Endoscopic Versus Transcallusal Approach
Dr. Raad Ahmed Hussein, Dr. Muhammed Hameed Faeadh Al-Jumaily, Dr. Ahmed Adnan Abdulhameed, Dr. Injam Ibrahim Sulaiman
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Colloid cyst is a rare congenital benign intracranial neoplasm, presented between 20 & 50 years of age. Open microscopic surgery is the standard approach, but the endoscopic approach is valuable alternative & astereotactic cyst aspiration is also tried nowadays. OBJECTS: a retrospective comparative study for removal of colloid cyst of the third ventricle was made to compare between endoscopic trans-cortical & microscopictranscallosal approaches. MATERIALS & METHODS: Between 2008 & 2015, a 23 patients with colloid cyst of the 3rd ventricle were operated, the operations were 13 transcallosal craniotomy& 10 endoscopic procedure, the age of the patients varies from 9 to 63 years, there were 9 females & 14 males. The presentations were headache, nausea & vomiting, blurring of vision & gait disturbances.
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Colloid Cyst, Transcallosal approach, Endoscopic Trans-cortical Approach.
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