title: Giant multi-compartmental suprasellar Rathke's cleft cyst with restriction on diffusion weighted images.
abstract: Rathke's cleft cysts are congenital lesions seen in sellar-suprasellar regions. We report a case of giant Rathke cyst in a 43-year-old patient with multi-compartmental involvement who presented with seizures with almost normal visual acuity. We discuss radiological and pathological features of various differential diagnoses for the giant suprasellar Rathke's cyst.
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Neurosurgery, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Bangalore, India.
authors.forename: Laxminadh
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sivaraju
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Neurosurgery, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Bangalore, India.
authors.forename: Narayanam
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Anantha Sai Kiran
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Neurosurgery, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Bangalore, India.
authors.forename: Arun S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Rao
authors.affiliation: 2 Department of Pathology, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Bangalore, India.
authors.forename: Nandita
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ghosal
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Neurosurgery, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Bangalore, India.
authors.forename: Alangar S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Hegde
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D020863:Central Nervous System Cysts / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D003399:Craniotomy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D038524:Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014792:Visual Acuity
keywords: Suprasellar Rathke’s cyst; hypopituitarism; seizures; visual acuity