A partially ossified solid and cystic Rathke cleft cyst: Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1324-1326

  Ogawa, Yoshikazu ^a   Tominaga, Teiji ^b  

^a KOHNAN HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ossification; Rathke cleft cyst; Solid lesion

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; DESMOPRESSIN; DEXAMETHASONE; GADOLINIUM; LEVOTHYROXINE; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT; BONE MATURATION; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONVALESCENCE; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; GOBLET CELL; GRANULATION TISSUE; HEMIANOPIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPITUITARISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC CHIASM; OSSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATHKE CLEFT CYST; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION;

CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CYSTS; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMIANOPSIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; OPTIC CHIASM; OSSIFICATION, HETEROTOPIC; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953487584     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2009.10.JNS09826     Document Type: Article

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