Minimally Invasive Surgery

Clinical Study

Neuroendoscopic Resection of Intraventricular Tumors and Cysts through a Working Channel with a Variable Aspiration Tissue Resector: A Feasibility and Safety Study

Table 2

Extent of resection.
Patient no.DiagnosisProcedureExtent of resection
Patient 1Lateral ventricular arachnoid cystCyst fenestration, ETV, SPFFenestration
Patient 23rd ventricular immature teratomaResection, ETV, SPFGross total resection
Patient 3Third ventricular epidermoidResection, ETV, SPFGross total resection
Patient 4Lateral ventricular arachnoid cystCyst fenestration, ETV, SPFFenestration
Patient 5Pineal region cystResection, ETV, SPFGross total resection
Patient 6Lateral ventricular mixed astroglial cystResection, ETV, SPFGross total resection
Patient 7Ventricular astrocytomaSubtotal resection, ETV, SPF22% resection
Patient 8Ventricular/suprasellar pituitary adenomaSubtotal resection, SPFPostop MRI not available
Patient 9Hypothalamic myxopapillary ependymomaResection, ETV, SPF75% resection
Patient 10Pineal parenchymal tumor of intermediate differentiationBiopsy, ETV22% resection
Patient 11Subependymal giant-cell astrocytomaResection, SPF 92% resection
Patient 12Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial-like tumorSubtotal resection, ETV, SPF 36% resection
Patient 13Lateral ventricular arachnoid cystCyst fenestration, SPFFenestration
Patient 14Pilocytic astrocytomaSubtotal resection, SPF61% resection
Patient 152 cm colloid cystSubtotal resection, SPFGross total resection
Patient 16CraniopharyngiomaSubtotal resection, ETV, SPF53.6% resection
ETV: endoscopic third ventriculostomy; SPF: septum pellucidum fenestration.