XANTHOGRANULOMA (XG) MASQUERADING AS TUMOUR OF SELLAR REGION- A DIAGNOSTIC CHALLENGE!!
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Xanthogranuloma of the Sellar Region
To the Editor: A 36‐year‐old female patient was admitted to Peking Union Medical College Hospital complaining of 6 years of headache. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed an intrasellar lesion with homogeneous hyperintense on T1‐weighted images and T2‐weighted images and inhomogeneous contrast enhancement by the gadolinium administration [Figure 1a and 1b]. Rathke’s cleft cyst was initially ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Evidence Based Medicine and Healthcare
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2349-2562,2349-2570
DOI: 10.18410/jebmh/2017/912