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Abstract
A 16-year-old girl presented with a 6-month history of progressive headaches and nasal obstruction. Histologic examination revealed an adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma [Figure 1]h. The patient was discharged from hospital with improvement of her nasal obstruction and headache-free. [...]infrasellar craniopharyngiomas present with symptoms of headache, cavernous sinus syndrome, frontal headache, nasal obstruction, epistaxis, and nasopharyngeal and nasal fossa masses. The current case presented with progressive headaches and nasal obstruction, without pituitary insufficiency, suggesting that the tumor had appeared in the sphenoid sinus and subsequently grown extradurally and superiorly. Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University; China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing 100050 Ming-Yang Li: Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University; China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases; Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Beijing 100050