title: Empty sella syndrome.
abstract: Awareness of the entities of primary and secondary empty sella syndrome and the use of current CT scanning techniques should allow one to differentiate between these conditions and persistent or recurrent pituitary adenoma. This distinction is important to make so unwarranted surgery or radiation therapy will not be advised.
mesh_terms: D000236:Adenoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D001099:Arachnoid / Q000503:physiopathology; D002559:Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea / Q000601:surgery; D004652:Empty Sella Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010902:Pituitary Gland / Q000503:physiopathology; D010911:Pituitary Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D013346:Subarachnoid Space; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000209:etiology