Figure 1.

MRI on diagnosis and 36 months after surgery in three children with craniopharyngioma with different degrees of preoperative hypothalamic involvement and operative hypothalamic damage.

Figures 1a, b: sellar tumor (no hypothalamic involvement [a]/no operative hypothalamic damage [b])

Figures 1c, d: preoperative involvement (c) and operative damage (d) of the anterior hypothalamus (not including the mammillary bodies).

Figures 1e, f: preoperative involvement (e) und operative damage (f) of the anterior and posterior hypothalamus (including the mammillary bodies).