Preoperative diagnosis of Rathke's cleft cyst.
Two cases of Rathke's cleft cyst are presented. The cysts showed as high-density lesions on plain CT with slight enhancement with contrast medium. They appeared as a hyperintense mass in the T 1-weighted magnetic resonance images. Preoperative diagnosis is very important because different sellar cystic lesions require different treatment.
Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Kanazawa University, Japan.
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D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003397:Craniopharyngioma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D010902:Pituitary Gland / Q000473:pathology; D010911:Pituitary Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed