[Clinical picture of craniopharyngioma in middle-age persons].

The clinical picture of craniopharyngioma was studied in 41 patients over 45 years of age. Disorders of visual functions were often the first and only manifestation of the disease. Dissociation between the condition of these functions and changes in the fundus oculi, asymmetric visual disorders in the right and left eyes and high incidence of central scotoma are the peculiarities of the ophthalmological complex of symptoms in craniopharyngioma.