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A Rathke's cleft cyst is a benign growth on the pituitary gland in the brain, specifically a mucin-filled [1] cyst in the posterior portion of the anterior pituitary gland. [2] [3] It occurs when the Rathke's pouch does not develop properly and ranges in size from 2 to 40 mm in diameter.
Craniopharyngioma is a rare, usually suprasellar [15] neoplasm, which may be cystic, that develops from nests of epithelium derived from Rathke's pouch. [16] [17] Rathke's pouch is an embryonic precursor of the anterior pituitary. [citation needed] Craniopharyngiomas are typically very slow-growing tumors.
Rathke's pouch may develop benign cysts. Craniopharyngioma is a neoplasm which can arise from the epithelium within the cleft. Abnormal development of Rathke's pouch can lead to various congenital disorders such as Rathke's cleft cysts.
This is a shortened version of the fourteenth chapter of the ICD-9: Congenital Anomalies. It covers ICD codes 740 to 759. The full chapter can be found on pages 417 to 437 of Volume 1, which contains all (sub)categories of the ICD-9. Volume 2 is an alphabetical index of Volume 1.
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These classification of cysts are embedded in the endoderm (inner layer) and the ectoderm (outer layer) of the cranial or spinal cord germ layers.They normally take over the neuraxis, the axis of the central nervous system that determines how the nervous system is placed, which allows the cysts to infiltrate the CNS tissues. [3]
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