[Analysis of causes of fatal outcome in children in the intensive care unit after removal of craniopharyngiomas].

Postoperative states of 55 children after removal of craniopharyngiomas are analyzed. Clinical and morphological analysis of cases with a complicated course of the postoperative period helped single out three groups of patients differing by the time of lethal outcome, time course of homeostatic reactions in the postoperative period, and autopsy findings. The data will help improve the diagnostic and therapeutic methods used in the postoperative period in such patients.