Yamamoto M, Jimbo M, Ide M, Umebara Y, Hagiwara S, Kubo O
Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Women's Medical College Dai-ni Hospital, Japan.
Surg Neurol. 1993 Apr;39(4):263-8. doi: 10.1016/0090-3019(93)90002-i.
A 65-year-old man presented with bitemporal hemianopsia. He had undergone frontal craniotomy for a Rathke's cleft cyst associated with narrowed visual field 8 years earlier. His vision had returned to normal soon after surgery and he remained asymptomatic until the present complaint. Neurodiagnostic imaging revealed a recurrence of the intrasellar cyst extending into the suprasellar cistern. His vision improved rapidly after a second surgery. The histological findings were the same as those of the previous operation; the cyst wall was composed of a single layer of ciliated columnar epithelium resting on a collagenous connective tissue stroma.
