text: We therefore modified the traditional interhemispheric approach (bilateral subfrontal and interhemispheric approach) and use the basal interhemispheric approach combined with the trans-lamina terminalis approach, that is, the fronto-basal interhemispheric approach [20], to treat craniopharyngiomas protruding from the sellar–suprasellar portion to the ventricles or septum pellucidum.