Table 1.
demonstrating articles included in the study by publication year with corresponding data regarding tumor histology, number of patients (n), presence of preoperative hydrocephalus, use of navigation/stereotactic tools, adjunctive endoscopic procedures, time spent in the operating room (OR time), hospital stay, procedure-related complications, resection success, and recurrence rate for 668 intraventricular tumors in 40 studies that underwent attempted endoscopic resection.
| Author | Year | n | Tumor histology (n) |
Preoperative Hydrocephalus (n) |
Navigation/ stereotaxy (n) |
Adjunctive procedures (n) |
Mean OR time (min) |
Mean hospital stay (days) |
Complications (n) |
Complete or near-complete resection (n) (%) |
Recurrence (n) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lewis et al. [11] | 1994 | 7 | Colloid cyst (7) | 5 | 0 | No | 127 | 1.7 | 1 | 7 (100) | 1 |
| Abdullah and Caemaert [21] | 1995 | 3 | Craniopharyngioma (3) | ND | ND | ND | ND | ND | 0 | 1 (33.4) | 2 |
| Abdou and Cohen [3] | 1998 | 13 | Colloid cyst (13) | 13 | 0 | No | ND | ND | 0 | 10 (76.9) | 0 |
| Gaab and Schroeder [12] | 1998 | 19 | Colloid cyst (7), Subependymoma (3), low-grade astrocytoma (2), germinoma (1), pineal cyst (1), epidermoid cyst (1), hemangioma (1), cavernoma (1), CPP (1), ependymoma (1) | 11 | Navigation (4) | ETV (2), septostomy (1), stent (2) | 85 | ND | 3 | 13 (68.4) | 1 |
| King et al. [51] | 1999 | 13 | Colloid cyst (13) | 12 | 0 | Septostomy (13) | 94 | 2.3 | 2 | 10 (83.3) | 0 |
| Rodziewicz et al. [36] | 2000 | 12 | Colloid cyst (12) | 6 | 0 | Septostomy (12) | ND | ND | 1 | 11 (91.7) | 1 |
| Decq et al. [55] | 2000 | 22 | Colloid cyst (22) | 21 | 0 | No | ND | ND | 0 | 14 (63.6) | 1 |
| Kehler et al. [8] | 2001 | 10 | Colloid cyst (10) | ND | ND | ND | ND | ND | 3 | 9 (90) | 1 |
| MacArthur et al. [56] | 2002 | 7 | Colloid cyst (3), low-grade astrocytoma (1), ependymoma (1), unknown (2) | ND | ND | ND | ND | ND | ND | 4 (57.1) | 0 |
| Jho and Alfieri [57] | 2002 | 2 | Colloid cyst (2) | ND | 0 | No | ND | ND | 0 | 2 (100) | 0 |
| Sgaramela et al. [58] | 2003 | 1 | Colloid cyst (1) | ND | ND | ND | ND | ND | 0 | 1 (100) | 0 |
| Hellwig et al. [34] | 2003 | 20 | Colloid cyst (20) | 19 | Stereotaxy (9), Navigation (11) | Intraoperative ventriculography (11) | 250 (stereotactic), 150 (navigated) | 7 | 4 | 18 (90) | 1 |
| Husain et al. [20] | 2003 | 25 | Colloid cyst (11), ependymal cyst (2), choroid plexus cyst (2), septum Pellucidum cyst (2), arachnoid cyst (2), neurocysticercosis (2), craniopharyngioma (2), pineoblastoma (1), pineal Cyst (1) | ND | 0 | No | ND | 3 | 2 | 20 (80) | ND |
| Souweidane [33, 37] | 2005 | 2 | Colloid cyst (1), glioneuronal tumor (1) | 1 | 0 | No | ND | ND | 0 | 2 (100) | 0 |
| Jeon et al. [59] | 2005 | 1 | Choroid plexus cyst (1) | 1 | 0 | No | ND | 37 | 1 | 1 (100) | ND |
| Longatti et al. [43] | 2006 | 61 | Colloid cysts (61) | 53 | 0 | No | 87 | 6.7 | 4 | 38 (62.3) | 7 |
| Souweidane and Luther [32] | 2006 | 7 | Ependymoma (2), central neurocytoma (2), low-grade glioneuronal tumor (2), subependymoma (1) | 7 | 0 | No | 117 | 2.6 | 2 | 5 (71.4) | 0 |
| Harter et al. [60] | 2006 | 1 | Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor (1) | 1 | ND | ND | ND | ND | ND | 1 (100) | ND |
| Lekovic et al. [46] | 2006 | 2 | Hypothalamic hamartomas (2) | ND | Navigation (2) | No | ND | ND | 0 | 1 (50) | ND |
| Grondin et al. [2] | 2007 | 25 | Colloid cysts (25) | 22 | 0 | No | 104 | 3.8 | 3 | 24 (96) | 1 |
| Horn et al. [48] | 2007 | 28 | Colloid cysts (28) | 17 | Navigation (28) | No | 174 | 5.4 | 3 | 10 (52.6), ND × 9 | 0 |
| Levine et al. [61] | 2007 | 35 | Colloid cysts (35) | ND | ND | ND | ND | ND | 7 | 32 (91.4) | 7 |
| Greenlee et al. [31] | 2008 | 35 | Colloid cysts (35) | ND | Frameless stereotaxy (35) | No | 93 | 3 | 3 | 29 (82.8) | 1 |
| El-Ghandour [30] | 2009 | 10 | Colloid cysts (10) | 10 | 0 | ETV (2) | ND | ND | 1 | 8 (80) | 0 |
| Stark et al. [38] | 2009 | 1 | Papillary ependymoma (1) | 1 | Navigation (1) | No | ND | ND | 1 | 1 (100) | 0 |
| Romano et al. [50] | 2009 | 1 | Central neurocytoma (1) | 1 | 0 | ETV (1) | ND | ND | 0 | 1 (100) | 0 |
| Oertel et al. [19] | 2009 | 11 | Unidentified (11) | ND | 0 | ETV (11) | 71 | ND | 9 | 4 (36.3) | ND |
| Mishra et al. [39] | 2010 | 59 | Colloid cyst (59) | 59 | Navigation (59) | No | ND | ND | 19 | 53 (89.8) | 0 |
| Najjar et al. [49] | 2010 | 7 | Colloid cyst (3), craniopharyngioma (1), low-grade astrocytoma (1), pineal cyst (1), unknown (1) | 6 | Navigation (2) | ETV (1), Septostomy (2) | ND | ND | 0 | 4 (57.1) | 1 |
| Boogaarts et al. [29] | 2011 | 90 | Colloid cyst (90) | ND | Stereotaxy (18) | ETV (7) | 79 | ND | 32 | 46 (57.5), ND × 10 | 24 |
| Ahmad and Sandberg [16] | 2010 | 1 | CPP (1) | 1 | 0 | ETV (1) | ND | ND | 0 | 1 (100) | 0 |
| Naftel et al. [28] | 2011 | 4 | Colloid cyst (2), hypothalamic hamartoma (2) | 1 | Navigation (2) | No | ND | ND | 0 | 3 (75) | ND |
| Dlouhy et al. [45] | 2011 | 4 | Colloid cyst (3), pineoblastoma (1) | ND | ND | ND | ND | ND | ND | 4 (100) | ND |
| Delitala et al. [27] | 2011 | 7 | Colloid cyst (7) | 4 | Navigation (4) | No | ND | ND | 0 | 6 (85.7) | 0 |
| Sood et al. [41] | 2011 | 2 | Pineal cyst (1), Pineoblastoma (1) | 2 | 0 | No | ND | ND | ND | 2 (100) | ND |
| Wilson et al. [26] | 2012 | 22 | Colloid cyst (22) | 19 | Navigation (19) | No | 180 | ND | 0 | 21 (95.4) | 0 |
| Margetis and Souweidane [25] | 2012 | 67 | Colloid cyst (67) | ND | Navigation (67) | No | ND | ND | 4 | 66 (98.5) | 3 |
| Mohanty et al. [44] | 2012 | 3 | Craniopharyngioma (2), subependymoma (1) | 2 | 0 | VP-shunt placement (2) | ND | ND | 2 | 2 (66.7) | 0 |
| Selvanathan et al. [42] | 2013 | 1 | Ependymoma (1) | 1 | Navigation | ETV | ND | ND | 1 | 1 (100) | 1 |
| Drees et al. [62] | 2012 | 26 | Hypothalamic hamartoma (26) | ND | ND | ND | ND | ND | 14 | 0 (0) | ND |
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| Total: 40 studies |
Total: 668 patients |
Total: 296/352 patients (84.1%) | Total: 262/581 patients (45.1%) | Total: 70/581 patients (12.0%) | Mean: 107.5 minutes | Mean: 4.8 days | Total: 123/592 patients (20.8%) | Total: 487/649 patients (75.0%) | Total: 53/533 patients (9.9%) | ||
CPP: choroid plexus papilloma, ND: no data, ETV: endoscopic third ventriculostomy, VP-shunt: ventriculoperitoneal shunt, and min: minutes.