MRI diagnosis and differential diagnosis of rathke cleft cyst
MEI Jixin
LIU Lingli
HUANG Juan
Abstract：Objective To MRI diagnosis and differential diagnosis of Rathke Cleft systs. Methods MRI findings of 15 pa-tients with histologically confirmed Rathke Cleft Cysts were retrospectively analyzed and compared with pathological results. Re-sults The most cysts were round or oval, 10 cases showed long T1 and long T2 signal, 3 cases showed short T1 and long T2 sig-nal, 1 case showed isointence T1 and short T2 , 1 case showed short signal on T1 and T2 , 3 cases of cystic nodules showed no en-hancement. The wall of the cyst showed round enhancement in 9 cases, All patients were not seen calcification. Conclusion There are some MRI features for Rathke Cleft Cysts, but atypical cysts should be differentiated from pituitary adenoma and cranio-pharyngioma.
Keywords：Rathke Cleft CystsMagnetic resonance imaging
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 1633-1635 )