title: Symptomatic Rathke's cleft cysts: a radiological, surgical and pathological review.
abstract: Rathke's cleft cyst is a non neoplastic lesion remnant of the Rathke's poutch. Symptomatic cysts must be surgically treated. There are no specific neuroradiological features for this lesion. We present a series of 14 symptomatic Rathke's cleft cysts treated with transphenoidal endoscopic technique, and we correlate the MRI intensity images with the intraoperative findings, the pathological analysis, the growth pattern and the recurrence tendency, to understand wether there is a better way to recognize these lesions, especially the asyntomatic ones, that, despite other neoplastic cysts, colud only be observed with a MRI follow up.
authors.affiliation: Neurosurgical Department, Regional Hospital, Treviso, Italy.
authors.forename: Domenico
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Billeci
authors.affiliation: Neurosurgical Department, Regional Hospital, Treviso, Italy. emarton@ulss.tv.it.|Neurosurgical and Pathology Department, Regional Hospital, Treviso, Italy. emarton@ulss.tv.it.
authors.forename: Elisabetta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Marton
authors.affiliation: Neurosurgical Department, Regional Hospital, Treviso, Italy.
authors.forename: Massimo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tripodi
authors.affiliation: Pathology Department, Regional Hospital, Treviso, Italy.
authors.forename: Enrico
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Orvieto
authors.affiliation: Neurosurgical Department, Regional Hospital, Treviso, Italy.
authors.forename: Pierluigi
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Longatti
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D020863:Central Nervous System Cysts / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D020420:Cyst Fluid; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures; D011379:Prognosis; D012008:Recurrence; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome