title: Rathke's cleft cyst with pituitary apoplexy: case report.
abstract: We report a Rathke's cleft cyst which presented as pituitary apoplexy, a rare presentation. A 46-year-old woman suffered sudden headache and visual loss. T1-weighted MRI 3 weeks after this apoplectic episode demonstrated a cystic lesion between the anterior and posterior lobes of the pituitary, with some high-signal material layering in it. The mass showed spontaneous regression on an image 3 weeks later. Trans-sphenoidal surgery confirmed the diagnosis of a Rathke's cleft cyst with a haematoma within it.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Medical University, 6-7-1 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0023, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nishioka
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Miki
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hashimoto
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nojima
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Matsumura
mesh_terms: D001766:Blindness / Q000209:etiology; D003397:Craniopharyngioma / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006261:Headache / Q000209:etiology; D006406:Hematoma / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D009365:Neoplasm Regression, Spontaneous; D010899:Pituitary Apoplexy / Q000209:etiology*; D010903:Pituitary Gland, Anterior / Q000473:pathology; D010904:Pituitary Gland, Posterior / Q000473:pathology; D010911:Pituitary Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology