MR Imaging Study of Edema along the Optic Tract in Patient with Rathke's Cleft Cyst

Brain and Nerve

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 243-246

  Asaeda, Masahiro ^a   Kurosaki, Masamichi ^a   Kambe, Atsushi ^a   Takenobu, Atsumi ^a   Horie, Yasushi ^b   Yamane, Yukou ^c   Murakami, Yoshio ^c   Watanabe, Takashi ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hypophysitis; MRI; Optic tract; Rathke's cleft cyst

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDEMA; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION TEST; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; LABORATORY TEST; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; METAPLASIA; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC TRACT; OPTIC TRACT EDEMA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RATHKE CLEFT CYST; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CYSTS; EDEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PITUITARY DISEASES; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 1942486351     PISSN: 00068969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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