title: Neurosurgical experience with magnetic resonance imaging in sellar lesions.
abstract: 41 patients with various sellar and parasellar lesions (pituitary adenomas, meningiomas, optic gliomas, craniopharyngeomas and granulomas), who underwent surgery consecutively, were studied by MRI investigations. In 10 patients post-operative MRI controls were performed. The information obtained by the MRI were compared with the other radiological investigations (especially coronar and axial high resolution CT), and the intra-operative findings. The advantages of MRI in the diagnosis of sellar lesion are demonstrated by exemplary cases.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009493:Neurosurgery / Q000379:methods*; D012658:Sella Turcica / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed