Subfrontal Infrachiasmatic Approach

In a video, Aldave et al., from the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Texas Children's Hospital, Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, presented a case of a 6-yr-old girl with a large sellar-suprasellar craniopharyngioma.

The fact that the sphenoid was not pneumatized and the chiasm was elevated 1.2 cm from the planum sphenoidale were some of the reasons to choose a subfrontal infrachiasmatic approach as they discuss and show in the video. This approach has not been very well established in the literature but they demonstrated it can become a good alternative for a particular type of sellar-suprasellar tumors. Appropriate video authorization consent was obtained from the parent of the patient ¹⁾.

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