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Suprasellar Alveolar Hydatid Disease Mimicking a Craniopharyngioma: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Management: Case Report

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  • Berete Ibrahima
  • Diawara Seylan
  • Alpha Boubacar Bah
  • Cherif Mohamed

    (Department of Neurosurgery, Hassan II University Hospital Fez, Morocco)

  • Khalid Chakour
  • Mohammed Faiz Chaoui

    (Department of Neurosurgery, Donka University Hospital, Conakry, Guinea)

Abstract

We report the case of a 16-year-old female patient with an alveolar hydatid cyst disease referred to our hospital for a rapid bilateral decrease in visual acuity and a seller lesion with suprasellar extension on Brain CT. On Examination she had no other neurologic symptoms and the fundoscopic examination revealed a stage II papilledema. Brain MRI showed a seller and suprasellar cystic lesion resembling a craniopharyngioma. Pituitary function was normal on laboratory testing. Patient underwent surgical resection of the lesion and histopathological examination confirmed the diagnosis of echinococcosis multilobularis. Albendazole Chemotherapy was initiated, and the patient did well postoperatively and at 1 year follow up. The present report intends not only to show a rare case of seller region lesion but also to remind clinicians of the Mediterranean area that Intracranial hydatid cyst is a rare but possible parasitic infestation of the seller region and should be kept in mind in the differential diagnosis of multiloculated cystic mass of that anatomic region.

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  • Berete Ibrahima & Diawara Seylan & Alpha Boubacar Bah & Cherif Mohamed & Khalid Chakour & Mohammed Faiz Chaoui, 2020. "Suprasellar Alveolar Hydatid Disease Mimicking a Craniopharyngioma: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Management: Case Report," Open Access Journal of Neurology & Neurosurgery, Juniper Publishers Inc., vol. 12(5), pages 109-111, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:adp:joajnn:v:12:y:2020:i:5:p:109-111
    DOI: 10.19080/OAJNN.2020.12.555847
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