Recurrence of symptomatic Rathke's cleft cyst: a case report.
A 65-year-old man presented with bitemporal hemianopsia. He had undergone frontal craniotomy for a Rathke's cleft cyst associated with narrowed visual field 8 years earlier. His vision had returned to normal soon after surgery and he remained asymptomatic until the present complaint. Neurodiagnostic imaging revealed a recurrence of the intrasellar cyst extending into the suprasellar cistern. His vision improved rapidly after a second surgery. The histological findings were the same as those of the previous operation; the cyst wall was composed of a single layer of ciliated columnar epithelium resting on a collagenous connective tissue stroma.
Yamamoto
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Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Women's Medical College Dai-ni Hospital, Japan.
Jimbo
M
M
Ide
M
M
Umebara
Y
Y
Hagiwara
S
S
Kubo
O
O
D000368:Aged; D003560:Cysts / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010900:Pituitary Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D012008:Recurrence; D012086:Reoperation; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed