A 7-Year-Old Boy Is Being Evaluated for Growth Retardation

A 7-year-old boy is being evaluated for growth retardation.  Brain MRI shows a 4 cm multiloculated, cystic, suprasellar lesion, which is bulging into the floor of the third ventricle and base of the brain.  Calcifications are present.  From which of the following structures is this mass most likely derived?

A) Prolactin secreting cells of the anterior pituitary
B) Remnants of the Rathke pouch
C) Astrocytes
D) Arachnoid cap cells
E) Posterior pituitary cells

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