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A multi-modality treatment programme, where stereotactic methods were used preferentially, gave results in a consecutive series of craniopharyngiomas, not inferior to those reported after microsurgical removal. Fourty-two patients with a follow-up range of 10–23 years are reported.
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Backlund, E.O., Axelsson, B., Bergstrand, C.G. et al. Treatment of craniopharyngiomas — the stereotactic approach in a ten to twenty-three years' perspective. Acta neurochir 99, 11–19 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01407771
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