Long-term quality of life in adult craniopharyngioma patients: correlation with pituitary stalk section after endoscopic endonasal surgery
Irene Portonero, Enrico Lo Bue, Alessandro Pesaresi, Alice Antico, Silvia Sgambetterra, Raffaele De Marco, Federica Penner, Diego Garbossa, Michele M R Lanotte, Francesco Zenga · 2026
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Description
Portonero and co-authors link life grade in growth hosts to a stalk cut in nose cuts. The growth, craniopharyngioma, is soft in type but fierce in place. It sits near key brain parts, which makes cuts a hard call. Full cuts curb back-growth risk but add long harm marks. Loss of the gland stalk drives much of that harm toll. The team read life grade post nose-scope cuts in grown hosts.
In sum, 35 grown hosts with proofed growth sat in the pool. Cuts ran from 2012 to the fall of 2023 at the base. Each host had at least one year of track post the cut. A phone poll of eight points graded life marks per host. Points span sap care, sight shifts, and brain-core strains. Each point took a score from one to five in the poll.
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| CREATOR | Irene Portonero, Enrico Lo Bue, Alessandro Pesaresi, Alice Antico, Silvia Sgambetterra, Raffaele De Marco, Federica Penner, Diego Garbossa, Michele M R Lanotte, Francesco Zenga |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |