The sellar and suprasellar region: a “hideaway” of rare lesions. Clinical aspects, imaging findings, surgical outcome and comparative analysis

The sellar and the suprasellar region (SSR) harbours sophisticated anatomy with a remarkable diversity of tissues from a cytogenetic view [18,23,24,30,36,66]. Consequently, a wide and heterogeneous array of lesions may originate in this region. Apart from pituitary adenomas (PA), compromising approximately 90% of all sellar tumors, Rathke ’s cleft cysts (RCCs), the second most “common” lesion in this area, meningiomas and craniopharyngiomas (CPs), there is a plethora of rare tumors or tumor-mimicking lesions occurring in the SSR, with or without pituitary origin [26,34,36,40,44,68,78].
Source: Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery - Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Source Type: research