“…Although the tumor itself is of low-grade histological malignancy and the overall 5-year survival rate of patients is high (91%), there is considerable morbidity even when the tumor is completely resected [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]. Long-term prognosis and quality of life in survivors are severely impaired due to consequential hormonal deficits that typically result in stunted growth and obesity [1,4,5,6,7,8,10]. In response to those cases of growth hormone (GH) deficiency, GH has been successfully used in the treatment of short stature in survivors of childhood craniopharyngioma [11,12,13,14,15,16,17].…”