Charles Explorer logo
🇬🇧

Differential diagnosis of sellar masses

Publication at First Faculty of Medicine |
2015

Abstract

Sellar tumours are quite frequently found during imaging examination of respective region. Their aetiology is very variable, the most prevailing tumours being pituitary adenomas.

Their clinical spectrum differs from clinically non-significant asymptomatic masses to life threatening ones and it could be determined by endocrine dysfunction and/or compressive symptoms. All these aspects and differences have to be carefully assessed and based on detailed examination further management has to be determined.

Present review article reviews current view on the issue of sellar tumours with respect on their differential diagnosis.