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- Title
Suprasellar dermoid cyst associated with colloid cyst of the third ventricle: Disordered embryogenesis or a mere coincidence?: Commentary.
- Authors
Yuji Koike
- Abstract
The author discusses aspects of an article which reported a case of an unusual association of suprasellar dermoid cyst with colloid cyst of the third ventricle in a 22-year-old man. He states that the report have several drawbacks. He mentions that histopathological evidence supporting the epithelial origin of the colloid cyst in the patient was not provided. He also mentions that the case highlights that clinicians should not rule out a possibility of synchronous tumors in a patient.
- Subjects
DERMOID cysts; CEREBRAL ventricles; CYSTS (Pathology); TUMORS; EMBRYOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice, 2013, Vol 4, Issue 3, p347
- ISSN
0976-3147
- Publication type
Opinion