Response to Craniopharyngioma adherence to the hypothalamus

To The Editor: We have viewed with great interest the special supplement published by Neurosurgical Focus in January 2013 (Neurosurgical Focus, Video Atlas of Operative Surgery: Intraventricular Lesions: Microscopic and Endoscopic Approaches, Vol 34: January 2013) in which a compilation of videos demonstrating different surgical procedures for third ventricle lesions is presented. Three of these outstanding didactic videos show, in microscopic detail, the surgical view and delicate maneuvers used to remove craniopharyngiomas (CPs) largely or exclusively involving the third ventricle. The featured techniques utilize three utterly different operative pathways: 1) the subfrontal translamina terminalis approach (Liu JK: Modified one-piece extended transbasal approach for translamina terminalis resection of retrochiasmatic third ventricular craniopharyngioma.