Imaging of sellar and parasellar lesions

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 111-124

  Rennert, Janine ^a   Doerfler, Arnd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Congenital and neoplastic lesions; Hypophysitis; MRI; Pituitary adenoma; Sellar and parasellar lesions; Vascular pathologies

Indexed keywords

BROMOCRIPTINE; STEROID;

BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN ARACHNOID CYST; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CAVERNOUS SINUS THROMBOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHONDROSARCOMA; CLIVUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPIDERMOID TUMOR; GERM CELL TUMOR; GRANULOMATOSIS; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; HYPOPHYSITIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; MENINGIOMA; MICROADENOMA; NEURILEMOMA; NEURINOMA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RATHKE CLEFT CYST; REVIEW; SARCOIDOSIS; SELLA TURCICA TUMOR; SPHENOID SINUS; STEROID THERAPY; TERATOMA; TOLOSA HUNT SYNDROME; VASCULAR LESION;

ADENOMA; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PITUITARY DISEASES; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; SELLA TURCICA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846059371     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2006.11.001     Document Type: Review

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