What are the hazards of craniopharyngioma in children?

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Craniopharyngioma has many names: Lac's cyst disease, pituitary tube tumor, pituitary stalk tumor, enamel tumor, epidermoma and so on. It originates from the remaining flat epithelial cells in the process of pituitary embryogenesis. It is a common congenital intracranial benign tumor, accounting for about 4% of intracranial tumors. What are the hazards of craniopharyngioma in children? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

What are the hazards of craniopharyngioma in children?

There are two pathological types of craniopharyngioma: Enamel craniopharyngioma and squamous papillary craniopharyngioma. Enamel type craniopharyngioma is a malignant tumor, that is, the tumor will recur. Almost all craniopharyngiomas in children are of this type. The squamous papillary craniopharyngioma is a benign tumor, which will not be malignant and will not recur after total resection. 50% of adult craniopharyngioma is this type, and the other 50% is enamel craniopharyngioma.

Craniopharyngioma grows in the sellar region and mainly compresses the optic nerve, which can lead to vision loss and blindness. The growth of craniopharyngioma will destroy the hypothalamus in sellar region, resulting in endocrine dysfunction and decrease of endocrine hormones. The main manifestations of the decrease of endocrine hormone are: short stature, undeveloped secondary sexual characteristics, such as undeveloped external genitalia, amenorrhea, etc; Adult sexual desire decreased. Children and adults will appear to drink and urinate more, afraid of cold and other symptoms.

The growth and development of craniopharyngioma in children must be affected, such as height and secondary sexual characteristics, but the intellectual development of the sick children is generally not affected and they can go to school normally. The height of children was significantly lower than that of children of the same age. The male genitalia is very small, and does not develop in puberty; Girls have no menstruation until puberty. Due to the damage of the development of the secondary sexual characteristics, the sick children can not bear children in adulthood.

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