2 not surprisingly many patients.
Floor of sella turcica.
Variation in shape and or size of the sella turcica the sella turcica is a cup shaped depression in the central basisphenoid bone which contains the pituitary gland and inferior part of the infundibular stalk.
The sellar floor is continuous anteriorly with the tuberculum sellae and posteriorly with the dor sum sellae.
This causes the gland to shrink or flatten.
Anatomically the sella turcica has been expressed as variable.
Figure 1 2 saddle like depression which is sella turcica.
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Sella turcica in the superior aspect of the sphenoid bone.
Sella tur cica a depression on the upper surface of the sphenoid bone lodging the pituitary gland.
Sella turcica resembles as saddle like depression which provide place for the pituitary gland.
Empty sella see empty sella syndrome.
It is divided into three fragments and consists of an anterior wall a floor and a posterior wall.
With empty sella syndrome csf has leaked into the sella turcica putting pressure on the pituitary.
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.
1 autopsy studies confirm the high disease prevalence reported to be 5 5 to 20 of the general population.