Rathke's cleft cyst: missed etiology of panhypopituitarism in presence of coexistent ocular and neurocysticercosis
| Autor: | Raju Sharma, Madhulika Kabra Chitra Sarkar, PS Menon, Ram Kalpatthi, Sameer Bakhshi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism Neurocysticercosis Cysticercus Hypopituitarism Lesion Diagnosis Differential Endocrinology medicine Humans Cyst Eye Infections Parasitic Central Nervous System Cysts Child Rathke's cleft cyst business.industry Cysticercosis Parietal lobe medicine.disease Treatment Outcome Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Etiology Female medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of pediatric endocrinologymetabolism : JPEM. 17(8) |
| ISSN: | 0334-018X |
| Popis: | We report a 10 year-old girl with panhypopituitarism and coexistent ocular and neurocysticercosis. Intrasellar cystic lesions whether neoplastic or non-neoplastic in origin are often difficult to distinguish because their symptoms, signs, and radiological characteristics are similar. The diagnosis of intrasellar cysticercosis was initially considered because of high endemicity, positive serology for cysticercus and radiological evidence of cysticercosis in the eye and parietal lobe. However, since there was no improvement with cysticidal therapy and no radiological resolution of the sellar lesion, surgery was performed, which revealed a Rathke's cleft cyst. |
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