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 d...

SUMMARY We report the MR findings of parapharyngeal branchial cleft cyst manifesting as multiple, lower cranial nerve palsies in a 35-year-old woman. On MR images, a well-marginated cystic mass was detected in the right parapharyngeal space, with displacement of both the right internal carotid artery and the right internal jugular vein on the posterolateral side. The cyst contained a whitish fl...

BACKGROUND Tetrasomy X is a rare chromosomal aneuploidy seen in girls, associated with facial dysmorphism, premature ovarian insufficiency and intellectual disability. A Rathke's cleft cyst (RCC) is a remnant of Rathke's pouch which may cause multiple pituitary hormone deficiencies by exerting pressure on the pituitary gland in the sella. METHODS/RESULTS The patient was diagnosed with tetraso...

Results Fetal abnormalities were observed in 45 (3. 7 %) of the cases. We were able to diagnose all the cases of hydrocephalus and ventriculomegaly, cranial menigocele, spina bifida, cleft lip and palate, micrognathia, cyst of lacrimal duct, hydronephrosis, renal agenesis simple renal cyst, clubhands, talipes, polydactyly, rib agenesis, diaphragmatic hernia, CCAM, atrial and atrioventricular se...

Methods: This is the sixth reported case of a benign parotid teratoid tumor. A fourteen-year-old boy presented with a slowly enlarging left preauricular mass over a six month period. On exam he had a mobile cystic parotid mass just anterior to his left tragus with an associated small preauricular pit. His facial nerve was intact. MRI demonstrated high uptake on T1 but low signal on T2 weighted ...

The majority of cystic squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) of the neck have been shown to be metastatic tumors from tonsillar SCCs associated with high-risk human papillomavirus (HR HPV). Recent studies have demonstrated cytokeratin (CK)7 involvement in the development of HPV positive SCC, but no report has been issued on its simultaneous expression in primary tonsillar and metastatic tumor with cy...

Branchiogenic carcinoma is extremely rare. The majority of branchiogenic carcinomas are cystic metastases originating in the tonsils, and not true carcinomas arising in a branchial cleft cyst. Isolated cystic neck lesions necessitate a thorough search for a primary tumor, as with other occult primaries presenting with cervical metastases. As the existence of primary branchiogenic carcinoma is c...