Empty sella is a radiological-anatomical entity characterised by a sella turcica filled partially or completely with cerebrospinal fluid, leading to varying degrees of pituitary flattening. Literature reports a 5% 20% incidence of empty sella in unselected autopsies leading many to argue that it is an extreme normal variant. Endocrine dysfunction varies from 8% 25% with primary empty sella and ...

The aim of this study was to assess and compare the dimensions of Sella Turcica in 90 subjects grouped as Group A (Skeletal Class I: ANB 0-4°, Wits value -1to 0.5 mm)1.4 and Group B (Skeletal Class II: ANB>4°, Wits value >0.5 mm) aged 14-30 years each having 45 subjects. For Group A Width (W) of Sella Turcica10 is found to be 15.33 mm + 2.77 S.D, Depth (D) 6.43 mm + 1.45 S.D, Area (A) 66.05 mm2...

Along the development of imaging diagnosis technology, it has become increasingly important to perform morphological research using images. Our aim here was to study the sella turcica using tomographic imaging in different planes of section that would reveal its shape and morphometry, correlating such data with the cranium-cephalic index, age and sex of the skulls analyzed. For this study, one ...

Trans-nasal sphenoid sinus foreign body is a rare condition. We report a case of trans-nasal gun bullet within the sphenoid sinus with breach of the floor of the sella turcica. A 42-year-old soldier presented a few weeks after a gun battle with a history of headache. The skull x-ray demonstrated a foreign body in the region of sphenoid sinus and sella. Multidetector-row CT with multiplanar refo...

A concha non-pneumatized sphenoid is considered to be a contraindication for the transsphenoidal resection of a pituitary adenoma. Specifically, this anatomical variation makes it difficult to approach the sella turcica. However, in this report, an intra-operative navigational system was used as a guide to access the sella through the sphenoid sinus. This procedure was found to be both reasonab...

Both sexes of Nilotonia sketi sp. nov. are described from percolating water of a cave in Cat Ba island in Halong Bay, Vietnam. The IV-L-6 of the new species is characterized by a line of longer ventral setae, and presence of two longer distoventral setae. The systematic position of Nilotonia species attributed to the subgenera Dartiella K. Viets, 1929 and Dartonia K. Viets, 1929 are discussed. ...

isual disturbances and hypopituitarism are not exclusive ymptoms of pituitary macroadenomas. Other tumors clinially behaving as macroadenomas may occur in the sellar rea. The most common of such tumors include cranioharyngioma, Rathke pouch cyst, and meningioma.1 The ase of a female patient in whom a pituitary macroadenoma as initially suspected but who was finally diagnosed with nother sellar ...