Empty sella syndrome as complication of benign intracranial hypertension.
An empty sella was demonstrated on air study in five patients with the benign intracranial hypertension (BIH) syndrome. All patients had a protracted course and very high cerebrospinal fluid pressure; two required a shunt procedure. No patient had any endocrine symptoms or visual field defects but an air study was done to exclude a mass lesion in the sella region. Among the last 50 patients seen with the BIH syndrome, there were five cases of an associated empty sella (10%). In these cases, the empty sella is a probable consequence of the long-standing intracranial hypertension associated with a congenital deficiency of the diaphragma sellae.
D000328:Adult; D000388:Air / Q000032:analysis; D002555:Cerebrospinal Fluid / Q000032:analysis; D002557:Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts; D005260:Female; D006261:Headache / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid; D006801:Humans; D007427:Intracranial Pressure; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009765:Obesity; D010211:Papilledema / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid; D011011:Pneumoencephalography; D011559:Pseudotumor Cerebri / Q000150:complications*; D012658:Sella Turcica / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000032:analysis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013577:Syndrome; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid