Concept information
Preferred term
Craniopharyngioma
Type
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Definition
- A benign pituitary-region neoplasm that originates from Rathke's pouch. The two major histologic and clinical subtypes are adamantinous (or classical) craniopharyngioma and papillary craniopharyngioma. The adamantinous form presents in children and adolescents as an expanding cystic lesion in the pituitary region. The cystic cavity is filled with a black viscous substance and histologically the tumor is composed of adamantinomatous epithelium and areas of calcification and necrosis. Papillary craniopharyngiomas occur in adults, and histologically feature a squamous epithelium with papillations. (From Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1998, Ch14, p50)
Broader concept
Entry terms
- Neoplasm, Rathke Cleft
- Neoplasm, Rathke's Cleft
- Rathke Cleft Neoplasm
- Rathke Pouch Tumor
- Rathke's Cleft Neoplasm
- Rathke's Pouch Tumor
Allowable Qualifier(s)
- blood (Qualifier)
- blood supply (Qualifier)
- cerebrospinal fluid (Qualifier)
- chemically induced (Qualifier)
- chemistry (Qualifier)
- classification (Qualifier)
- complications (Qualifier)
- congenital (Qualifier)
- diagnosis (Qualifier)
- diagnostic imaging (Qualifier)
- diet therapy (Qualifier)
- drug therapy (Qualifier)
- economics (Qualifier)
- embryology (Qualifier)
- enzymology (Qualifier)
- epidemiology (Qualifier)
- ethnology (Qualifier)
- etiology (Qualifier)
- genetics (Qualifier)
- history (Qualifier)
- immunology (Qualifier)
- metabolism (Qualifier)
- microbiology (Qualifier)
- mortality (Qualifier)
- nursing (Qualifier)
- parasitology (Qualifier)
- pathology (Qualifier)
- physiopathology (Qualifier)
- prevention & control (Qualifier)
- psychology (Qualifier)
- radiotherapy (Qualifier)
- rehabilitation (Qualifier)
- secondary (Qualifier)
- surgery (Qualifier)
- therapy (Qualifier)
- ultrastructure (Qualifier)
- urine (Qualifier)
- veterinary (Qualifier)
- virology (Qualifier)
In other languages
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French
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Tumeur de la poche de Rathke
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-Z0BJD70L-9
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