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'''Craniopharyngioma''' is a benign [[neuropathology tumour]]. | '''Craniopharyngioma''' is a benign epithelial [[neuropathology tumour]]. | ||
It is subdivided into '''papillary craniopharyngioma''' and '''adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma'''. | It is subdivided into '''papillary craniopharyngioma''' and '''adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma'''. | ||
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*More frequent in asia than in Europe/US. | *More frequent in asia than in Europe/US. | ||
== | ==Imaging== | ||
Radiology:<ref name=pmid17425791/> | |||
*Calcifications (adamantinous type). | *Calcifications (adamantinous type). | ||
*Contrast enhancing. | *Contrast enhancing. | ||
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*Cystic mass filled with motor oil-like fluid.<ref name=pmid21584897>{{Cite journal | last1 = Fernandez-Miranda | first1 = JC. | last2 = Gardner | first2 = PA. | last3 = Snyderman | first3 = CH. | last4 = Devaney | first4 = KO. | last5 = Strojan | first5 = P. | last6 = Suárez | first6 = C. | last7 = Genden | first7 = EM. | last8 = Rinaldo | first8 = A. | last9 = Ferlito | first9 = A. | title = Craniopharyngioma: a pathologic, clinical, and surgical review. | journal = Head Neck | volume = 34 | issue = 7 | pages = 1036-44 | month = Jul | year = 2012 | doi = 10.1002/hed.21771 | PMID = 21584897 }}</ref> | *Cystic mass filled with motor oil-like fluid.<ref name=pmid21584897>{{Cite journal | last1 = Fernandez-Miranda | first1 = JC. | last2 = Gardner | first2 = PA. | last3 = Snyderman | first3 = CH. | last4 = Devaney | first4 = KO. | last5 = Strojan | first5 = P. | last6 = Suárez | first6 = C. | last7 = Genden | first7 = EM. | last8 = Rinaldo | first8 = A. | last9 = Ferlito | first9 = A. | title = Craniopharyngioma: a pathologic, clinical, and surgical review. | journal = Head Neck | volume = 34 | issue = 7 | pages = 1036-44 | month = Jul | year = 2012 | doi = 10.1002/hed.21771 | PMID = 21584897 }}</ref> | ||
**May not be seen in the papillary variant of craniopharyngioma. | **May not be seen in the papillary variant of craniopharyngioma. | ||
*Calcified - adamantinomatous type only. | *Calcified - adamantinomatous type only. | ||
*Solid & cystic. | *Solid & cystic. | ||
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*Epidermoid | *Epidermoid | ||
*Well-differentiated carcinoma metastasis | *Well-differentiated carcinoma metastasis | ||
==Trivia== | |||
*The oldest specimen from 1828 is displayed in the pathological-anatomical museum of Vienna.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Pascual | first1 = JM. | last2 = Prieto | first2 = R. | last3 = Rosdolsky | first3 = M. | last4 = Hofecker | first4 = V. | last5 = Strauss | first5 = S. | last6 = Winter | first6 = E. | last7 = Ulrich | first7 = W. | title = Joseph Engel (1816-1899), author of a meaningful dissertation on tumors of the pituitary infundibulum: his report on the oldest preserved whole craniopharyngioma specimen. | journal = Virchows Arch | volume = | issue = | pages = | month = Sep | year = 2019 | doi = 10.1007/s00428-019-02664-z | PMID = 31511968 }}</ref> | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||