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MR Imaging Appearance of Ruptured Rathke Cleft Cyst and Associated Bone Marrow Enhancement

Ian T. Mark and Christine M. Glastonbury
American Journal of Neuroradiology November 2023, 44 (11) 1314-1317; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A8009
Ian T. Mark
aFrom the Department of Radiology (I.T.M.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
bDepartment of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging (I.T.M., C.M.G.), University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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MR Imaging Appearance of Ruptured Rathke Cleft Cyst and Associated Bone Marrow Enhancement
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