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Professor Rathke's Legacy to Neurosurgery: The Cyst, Its Diagnosis, Surgical Management, and Outcomes

2021; Thieme Medical Publishers (Germany); Linguagem: Inglês

10.1055/s-0041-1725508

2193-6331

Alaa Montaser, Edward R. Laws,

History of Medical Practice

Introduction: Martin Heinrich Rathke (1793–1860), the pioneer German embryologist, reported the evolutionary existence of Rathke's pouch in 1839. Subsequently, this structure has become the target of endoscopic endonasal surgery when a Rathke's cleft cyst becomes symptomatic. The clinical presentation, surgical techniques, and long-term outcomes continue to be of interest. We aim to highlight the nuances in diagnosis, surgical philosophy and techniques, and long-term clinical and radiographic outcomes.