TY - BOOK AU - Walid Eissa Elhalaby AU - Ahmed Zohdi Mostafa Zohdi , AU - Amr Elsamman , AU - Faheem Aly Elbassiony , TI - Recent modalities in treatment of craniopharyngioma / PY - 2009/// CY - Cairo : PB - Walid Eissa Elhalaby , KW - Brain tumours KW - Craniopharyngioma KW - Sellar N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of General Surgery; Issued also as CD N2 - There are two main management pathways with regards to the treatment of the tumour the first involves attempted gross total resection of the tumour the second approach is for more limited surgery aimed at debulking the tumour to reduce the mass effect on the optic pathways and/or to re-establish the cerebrospinal fluid pathways ER -