Bipartite craniopharyngeal canal with a lipoma and cephalocele: a previously unreported entity
| Autor: | Chandrasekharan Kesavadas, Bejoy Thomas, S. Vinayagamani, Jaypalsinh Gohil, Sabarish Sekar, Prakash Nair |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Pituitary gland Adolescent Normal pituitary function 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine Humans Neuroradiology Encephalocele Cephalocele medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Interventional radiology Craniopharyngeal canal Anatomy Lipoma medicine.disease Magnetic Resonance Imaging medicine.anatomical_structure Pituitary Gland Surgery Neurology (clinical) Neurosurgery business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Acta neurochirurgica. 161(2) |
| ISSN: | 0942-0940 |
| Popis: | A 13-year-old male child was evaluated for headache and visual deterioration; he underwent routine MRI imaging which revealed a large craniopharyngeal canal, divided by an abnormal bony septum giving a bipartite appearance of the canal, with a lipoma and cephalocele on either side of the septum. The child had undergone a previous surgery for cleft palate repair at the age of 7. The child had normal pituitary function inspite of nonvisualization of pituitary gland in MRI. To best our knowledge, this is the first case with such a variation. We have also discussed the possible embryological hypothesis for this previously unreported entity. Knowledge about this rare variant might have surgical relevance in selected cases. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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