Clinical Radiology
Volume 65, Issue 1 , Pages 47-55 , January 2010

Rathke's cleft cyst: clinicopathological and MRI findings in 22 patients

  • L. Wen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, XinQiao Hosptial, Third Military Medical University, ChongQing 400037, P.R. China
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  • L.-b. Hu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, The Second People's Hospital of ChongQing, ChongQing, China
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  • X.-y. Feng

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, HuaShan Hosptial, Medical Center of FuDan University, ShangHai 200040, P.R. China
    • ,
  • D. Gaurav

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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  • L.-g. Zou

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, XinQiao Hosptial, Third Military Medical University, ChongQing 400037, P.R. China
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  • W.-x. Wang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, XinQiao Hosptial, Third Military Medical University, ChongQing 400037, P.R. China
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  • D. Zhang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, XinQiao Hosptial, Third Military Medical University, ChongQing 400037, P.R. China
    • Corresponding Author InformationGuarantor and correspondent. Tel.+86 023 68774676.

Received 8 July 2009 ,Revised 21 September 2009 ,Accepted 24 September 2009.

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PII: S0009-9260(09)00358-4

doi: 10.1016/j.crad.2009.09.010

Clinical Radiology
Volume 65, Issue 1 , Pages 47-55 , January 2010

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