Clinical study of symptomatic Rathke cleft cyst

Neurological Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 625-631

  Keyaki, Atsushi ^a   Kim, Yeong Jing ^b   Nabeshima, Sachio ^b  

^a Osaka Saiseikai Izuo Hospital   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

MRL transsphenoidal surgery; Pituitary cyst; Rathke cleft cyst; Sella turcica

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CYST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; CYST FLUID; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRAIN; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; HYPOPITUITARISM; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RATHKE CLEFT CYST; RECURRENCE RISK; REOPERATION; SELLA TURCICA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADULT; AGED; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CYSTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032793186     PISSN: 03012603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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