A comprehensive analysis of intracranial chordoma and survival: a systematic review.

Objective: Despite the published information on cranial chordoma, most of the data regarding survival in these patients has come from a single institution. Here, we perform a systematic review of the literature to evaluate across multiple institutions the overall survival after treatment for intracranial chordoma.

Materials And Methods: We systematically analysed every study published in English and found a total of over 2000 patients being treated for intracranial chordoma.

Endocrinologic, neurologic, and visual morbidity after treatment for craniopharyngioma.

Craniopharyngiomas are locally aggressive tumors which typically are focused in the sellar and suprasellar region near a number of critical neural and vascular structures mediating endocrinologic, behavioral, and visual functions. The present study aims to summarize and compare the published literature regarding morbidity resulting from treatment of craniopharyngioma. We performed a comprehensive search of the published English language literature to identify studies publishing outcome data of patients undergoing surgery for craniopharyngioma.

Hearing preservation after stereotactic radiosurgery for vestibular schwannoma: a systematic review.

Radiosurgery has evolved into an effective alternative to microsurgical resection in the treatment of patients with vestibular schwannoma. We performed a systematic analysis of the literature in English on the radiosurgical treatment of vestibular schwannoma patients. A total of 254 published studies reported assessable and quantifiable outcome data of patients undergoing radiosurgery for vestibular schwannomas.