Author Year
Tumor histology
Preoperative Hydrocephalus
Navigation/
Adjunctive procedures
Mean OR time Mean hospital stay Complications
Complete or near-complete resection
(%) Recurrence
Lewis et al. [11 ] 1994 7 Colloid cyst (7) 5 0 No 127 1.7 1 7 (100) 1
Abdullah and Caemaert [21 ] 1995 3 Craniopharyngioma (3) ND ND ND ND ND 0 1 (33.4) 2 Abdou and Cohen [3 ] 1998 13 Colloid cyst (13) 13 0 No ND ND 0 10 (76.9) 0
Gaab and Schroeder [12 ] 1998 19 Colloid cyst (7), Subependymoma (3), low-grade astrocytoma (2), germinoma (1), pineal cyst (1), epidermoid cyst (1), hemangioma (1), cavernoma (1), CPP (1), ependymoma (1) 11 Navigation (4) ETV (2), septostomy (1), stent (2) 85 ND 3 13 (68.4) 1 King et al. [51 ] 1999 13 Colloid cyst (13) 12 0 Septostomy (13) 94 2.3 2 10 (83.3) 0 Rodziewicz et al. [36 ] 2000 12 Colloid cyst (12) 6 0 Septostomy (12) ND ND 1 11 (91.7) 1
Decq et al. [55 ] 2000 22 Colloid cyst (22) 21 0 No ND ND 0 14 (63.6) 1 Kehler et al. [8 ] 2001 10 Colloid cyst (10) ND ND ND ND ND 3 9 (90) 1
MacArthur et al. [56 ] 2002 7 Colloid cyst (3), low-grade astrocytoma (1), ependymoma (1), unknown (2) ND ND ND ND ND ND 4 (57.1) 0
Jho and Alfieri [57 ] 2002 2 Colloid cyst (2) ND 0 No ND ND 0 2 (100) 0
Sgaramela et al. [58 ] 2003 1 Colloid cyst (1) ND ND ND ND ND 0 1 (100) 0 Hellwig et al. [34 ] 2003 20 Colloid cyst (20) 19 Stereotaxy (9), Navigation (11) Intraoperative ventriculography (11) 250 (stereotactic), 150 (navigated) 7 4 18 (90) 1 Husain et al. [20 ] 2003 25 Colloid cyst (11), ependymal cyst (2), choroid plexus cyst (2), septum Pellucidum cyst (2), arachnoid cyst (2), neurocysticercosis (2), craniopharyngioma (2), pineoblastoma (1), pineal Cyst (1) ND 0 No ND 3 2 20 (80) ND Souweidane [33 , 37 ] 2005 2 Colloid cyst (1), glioneuronal tumor (1) 1 0 No ND ND 0 2 (100) 0
Jeon et al. [59 ] 2005 1 Choroid plexus cyst (1) 1 0 No ND 37 1 1 (100) ND Longatti et al. [43 ] 2006 61 Colloid cysts (61) 53 0 No 87 6.7 4 38 (62.3) 7 Souweidane and Luther [32 ] 2006 7 Ependymoma (2), central neurocytoma (2), low-grade glioneuronal tumor (2), subependymoma (1) 7 0 No 117 2.6 2 5 (71.4) 0
Harter et al. [60 ] 2006 1 Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor (1) 1 ND ND ND ND ND 1 (100) ND Lekovic et al. [46 ] 2006 2 Hypothalamic hamartomas (2) ND Navigation (2) No ND ND 0 1 (50) ND Grondin et al. [2 ] 2007 25 Colloid cysts (25) 22 0 No 104 3.8 3 24 (96) 1 Horn et al. [48 ] 2007 28 Colloid cysts (28) 17 Navigation (28) No 174 5.4 3 10 (52.6), ND
9 0
Levine et al. [61 ] 2007 35 Colloid cysts (35) ND ND ND ND ND 7 32 (91.4) 7 Greenlee et al. [31 ] 2008 35 Colloid cysts (35) ND Frameless stereotaxy (35) No 93 3 3 29 (82.8) 1
El-Ghandour [30 ] 2009 10 Colloid cysts (10) 10 0 ETV (2) ND ND 1 8 (80) 0 Stark et al. [38 ] 2009 1 Papillary ependymoma (1) 1 Navigation (1) No ND ND 1 1 (100) 0 Romano et al. [50 ] 2009 1 Central neurocytoma (1) 1 0 ETV (1) ND ND 0 1 (100) 0 Oertel et al. [19 ] 2009 11 Unidentified (11) ND 0 ETV (11) 71 ND 9 4 (36.3) ND Mishra et al. [39 ] 2010 59 Colloid cyst (59) 59 Navigation (59) No ND ND 19 53 (89.8) 0 Najjar et al. [49 ] 2010 7 Colloid cyst (3), craniopharyngioma (1), low-grade astrocytoma (1), pineal cyst (1), unknown (1) 6 Navigation (2) ETV (1), Septostomy (2) ND ND 0 4 (57.1) 1
Boogaarts et al. [29 ] 2011 90 Colloid cyst (90) ND Stereotaxy (18) ETV (7) 79 ND 32 46 (57.5), ND
10 24 Ahmad and Sandberg [16 ] 2010 1 CPP (1) 1 0 ETV (1) ND ND 0 1 (100) 0 Naftel et al. [28 ] 2011 4 Colloid cyst (2), hypothalamic hamartoma (2) 1 Navigation (2) No ND ND 0 3 (75) ND Dlouhy et al. [45 ] 2011 4 Colloid cyst (3), pineoblastoma (1) ND ND ND ND ND ND 4 (100) ND Delitala et al. [27 ] 2011 7 Colloid cyst (7) 4 Navigation (4) No ND ND 0 6 (85.7) 0 Sood et al. [41 ] 2011 2 Pineal cyst (1), Pineoblastoma (1) 2 0 No ND ND ND 2 (100) ND Wilson et al. [26 ] 2012 22 Colloid cyst (22) 19 Navigation (19) No 180 ND 0 21 (95.4) 0 Margetis and Souweidane [25 ] 2012 67 Colloid cyst (67) ND Navigation (67) No ND ND 4 66 (98.5) 3 Mohanty et al. [44 ] 2012 3 Craniopharyngioma (2), subependymoma (1) 2 0 VP-shunt placement (2) ND ND 2 2 (66.7) 0 Selvanathan et al. [42 ]
2013 1 Ependymoma (1) 1 Navigation ETV ND ND 1 1 (100) 1
Drees et al. [62 ] 2012 26 Hypothalamic hamartoma (26) ND ND ND ND ND 14 0 (0) ND Total: 40 Total: 668 Total: 296/352 patients (84.1%) Total: 262/581 patients (45.1%) Total: 70/581 patients (12.0%) Mean: 107.5 minutes Mean: 4.8 days Total: 123/592 patients (20.8%) Total: 487/649 patients (75.0%) Total: 53/533 patients (9.9%)
