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While older literature placed significant emphasis on distinguishing craniopharyngiomas from other cystic epithelial lesions, and more recent literature has stressed the importance of subclassifying craniopharyngiomas into adamantinomatous and papillary subtypes, the amalgamated experience with this group of lesions indicates that they behave in a fairly homogeneous and predictable manner: if they are totally removed, the patient is cured. If not, they will continue to grow, leading to clinical “recurrence.”
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Prayson, R.A., Cohen, M.L. (2000). Benign Epithelial Lesions—Craniopharyngiomas and Cysts. In: Practical Differential Diagnosis in Surgical Neuropathology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-037-7_27
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