Double Floor Of Sella Turcica

32 patients 15 9 had oblique anterior wall.

Double floor of sella turcica.

The empty sella turcica was first described in 1949 as a condition where the sella turcica is only partially filled by the pituitary gland which appears flattened against the sellar floor fig. Ballooned sella with an undercutting anterior clinoid process unequal downward displacement of the floor double floor appearance craniopharyngioma. Sella tur cica a depression on the upper surface of the sphenoid bone lodging the pituitary gland. Anatomically the sella turcica has been expressed as variable.

Elongated sella with short curved dorsum is characteristic but more often indistinguishable from the pituitary lesions. It is divided into three fragments and consists of an anterior wall a floor and a posterior wall. Empty sella see empty sella syndrome. Lateral skull radiograph showed enlargement of the pituitary fossa and uneven bony structure of the sella turcica with poor alignment of the anterior fossa and sphenoid wings so called the double sellar floor sign fig.

1a indicating an intrasellar mass or parasellar lesion. Miller keane encyclopedia and dictionary of medicine nursing and. 1 autopsy studies confirm the high disease prevalence reported to be 5 5 to 20 of the general population. 2 not surprisingly many patients.

Rarely can cause sellar enlargement if reaches large. This condition is known as primary empty sella syndrome ess. The buildup of spinal fluid squashes the pituitary gland flat so it looks like your sella turcica is empty. Figure 1 2 saddle like depression which is sella turcica.

Sella turcica in the superior aspect of the sphenoid bone. The sella turcica latin for turkish seat is a saddle shaped depression in the body of the sphenoid bone of the human skull and of the skulls of other hominids including chimpanzees orangutans and gorillas it serves as a cephalometric landmark the pituitary gland or hypophysis is located within the most inferior aspect of the sella turcica the hypophyseal fossa. Sella turcica resembles as saddle like depression which provide place for the pituitary gland. Sella sel ah l a saddle shaped depression.