Subfrontal trans-lamina terminalis approach to a third ventricular craniopharyngioma

Omar Choudhri, MD,1 and Steven D. Chang, MD2 1Department of Neurosurgery, University of California, San Francisco; and 2Stanford University Medical Center, Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford, California Craniopharyngiomas are benign, partly cystic epithelial tumors that can rarely occur in a retrochiasmatic location with involvement of the third ventricle. The lamina terminalis is an important neurosurgical corridor to these craniopharyngiomas in the anterior portion of the third ventricle. We present a