Rathke's cleft cyst and partial feet adactyly: an unusual association.

نویسندگان

  • Jackson A Gondim
  • Michele Schops
  • João Paulo Cavalcante
  • Erica Gomes
چکیده

A 53 year-old woman presented a recurrent bifrontal headache of 2 years duration and bilateral progressive visual disturbance. The clinical and neurological examination showed a bilateral feet adactyly and bitemporal hemianopsia. The brain MRI demonstrated a Rathke's cleft cyst. The patient was operated by a transnasal endoscopic approach. It seems that this unusual association has never been described before.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

دوره 65 4A  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2007