Sella turcica resembles as saddle like depression which provide place for the pituitary gland.
Floor of sella turcica.
Figure 1 2 saddle like depression which is sella turcica.
Primary empty sella syndrome occurs when one of the layers arachnoid covering the outside of the brain bulges down into the sella and presses on the pituitary.
Sella tur cica a depression on the upper surface of the sphenoid bone lodging the pituitary gland.
This causes the gland to shrink or flatten.
It is divided into three fragments and consists of an anterior wall a floor and a posterior wall.
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.
With empty sella syndrome csf has leaked into the sella turcica putting pressure on the pituitary.
The sellar floor is continuous anteriorly with the tuberculum sellae and posteriorly with the dor sum sellae.
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.
2 not surprisingly many patients.
Sella sel ah l a saddle shaped depression.
Sella turcica in the superior aspect of the sphenoid bone.
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Empty sella see empty sella syndrome.