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11516552

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-8-22
pubmed:abstractText
To investigate the clinical features of Rathke's cleft cysts (RCCs), we retrospectively analyzed 15 cases with histologically confirmed RCCs. All patients underwent formal testing of visual field, endocrinological evaluation and magnetic resonance imagings. As overall presenting symptoms, endocrine disturbance was the most common symptoms, followed by visual disturbance and headache. Among the endocrine disturbances based on adenohypophysial dysfunction, hyperprolactinemia was most common. Considering the size of RCCs, RCCs could induce hyperprolactinemia only when the cysts became large enough to compress the infundibular system. Our series showed relative high incidence of pituitary dwarfism and diabetes insipidus (DI). These facts indicated that RCCs could evoke hyposecretion of growth hormone in young patients and DI in aged patients by direct compression of the pituitary gland in the early stage of progression. All cases who had headache had no other symptoms. We could not prove the evidence that RCCs could induce headaches in these cases. This might be suggested that headache could not be a sole symptom in cases of RCCs.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0303-8467
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
103
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
96-100
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-10-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Clinical features of symptomatic Rathke's cleft cyst.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurosurgery, Oita Medical University, 1-1, Idaigaoka, Hasama-machi, Oita 879-5593, Japan. isonom@oita-med.ac.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article