A suprasellar epidermoid cyst with symptoms of hypothalamic involvement: case report and a review of pathogenetic mechanisms.
A 38-year-old Caucasian male died following complications of a myocardial infarct. He had been obese and reportedly hyperphagic. At autopsy an 8-cm-in-diameter suprasellar epidermoid cyst was discovered to have destroyed much of his frontal lobe tissue. The histogenesis and classification of this large, clinically unsuspected lesion are discussed.
D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology; D003397:Craniopharyngioma / Q000473:pathology*; D004814:Epidermal Cyst / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007029:Hypothalamic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D009765:Obesity / Q000473:pathology; D010911:Pituitary Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*