Table 2.

Case reports of craniopharyngiomas during pregnancy.

Authors, year	Age of patient	Symptoms of presentation	Hospital course	Follow-up
Fischer, 1935 [19]	?	Bitemporal HA at 20 wk gestation	Therapeutic abortion	Patient became blind
Sachs et al., 1978 [20]	24 yrs	Visual problems and HA at 28 wk gestation	Tumour resected, DDAVP treatment, and normal term delivery	Vision returned to normal
Van der Wildt et al., 1980 [21]	24 yrs	DI at 20 wk gestation	DDAVP treatment, delivery at 36 wk, and tumour resected postpartum	Vision returned to normal
Hiett and Barton, 1990 [22]	22 yrs	DI at 27 wk gestation, HA, and visual problems	DDAVP treatment, delivery at 34 wk, and tumour resected postpartum	Vision improved after tumour resection
Johnson et al., 1993 [19]	27 yrs	Visual problems, HA in 2nd trimester	Tumour resection, normal term delivery	Vision near normal after tumor resection
Maniker and Krieger, 1996 [23]	35 yrs	Visual problems, HA at 8 wk gestation	2 transsphenoidal resections, healthy delivery via CS at 33 wk	Vision returned to normal
Aydin et al., 1999 [25]	19 yrs	Visual problems and HA at 20 wk gestation	Transsphenoidal resection, delivery at term	Vision returned to normal, 2nd resection during subsequent pregnancy 4 yrs later
Magge et al., 2001 [24]	39 yrs	Visual problems, DI, and severe fatigue at 6 wk	Abortion, F-T craniotomy with suprasellar resection, and intranasal DDAVP	Small inferior temporal quadrantanopsia in LE, 2nd pregnancy with new bitemporal field cut that disappeared after normal vaginal delivery, DI in treatment with DDAVP, and thyroid hormone replacement
Zoia, 2014	32 yrs	Visual problems (temporal hemianopsia RE and inferior-temporal field cut LE) at 30 wk + 1 gestation	Cortisol replacement, delivery via CS at 33 wk + 3, endoscopic transsphenoidal subtotal resection and decompression of the optic chiasm, lumbar drainage for 6 days, and DDAVP	Vision returned to normal, no hormone deficiencies; RMN (3 months later) shows small residual with no chiasm compression

HA: headache; DI: diabetes insipidus; CS: caesarean section; F-T: frontotemporal; DDAVP: desmopressin acetate; RE: right eye; LE: left eye.