Atlas of Sellar and Parasellar Lesions

Gabriel Zada, MD, MS Department of Neurological Surgery Keck School of Medicine University of Southern California 1975 Zonal Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA gzada@usc.edu M. Beatriz S. Lopes, MD, PhD Department of Pathology (Neuropathology) University of Virginia School of Medicine 1215 Lee Street, Room 3060-HEP Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA msl2e@virginia.edu Srinivasan Mukundan, Jr, PhD, MD Department of Radiology Brigham and Women's Hospital 75 Francis Street Boston, MA 02115 USA smukundan@partners.org Edward Laws, Jr, MD Department of Neurosurgery Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School 15 Francis Street Boston, MA 02115, USA elaws@partners.org

Anatomy of the Sellar and Parasellar Region.- Imaging of the Sellar Region.- Pituitary Physiology and Endocrinology.- Pathology and Molecular Biology of the Pituitary Region.- The Direct Endoscopic Endonasal Transsphenoidal Approach to the Pituitary Gland.- Transcranial and Skull Base Surgical Approaches to the Sellar and Parasellar Region.- Radiosurgery of the Sellar and Parasellar Region.- The Normal Pituitary Gland.- Pituitary Hyperplasia.- Nonfunctioning Pituitary Adenomas.- Prolactinomas.- Somatotroph (GH) Adenomas.- Corticotroph (ACTH) Adenomas.- Silent Corticotroph (ACTH) Adenomas.- Thyrotroph (TSH) Adenomas.- Gonadotroph Adenomas.- Pituitary Apoplexy.- Atypical Pituitary Adenomas.- Pituitary Carcinoma.- Ectopic Pituitary Adenomas.- Craniopharyngioma.- Rathke Cleft Cyst.- Xanthogranuloma of the Sellar Region.- Petrous Apex Cholesterol Granuloma.- Sellar Region Arachnoid Cyst.- Sellar Region Epidermoid and Dermoid Cysts.- Colloid Cyst of the Sellar Region.- Meningioma.- Hemangiopericytoma.- Schwannomas of the Sellar and Parasellar Region.- Chordoma and Chondrosarcoma.- Hemangioblastoma.- Cavernous Sinus Cavernous Hemangioma.- Optic Pathway (Opticochiasmatic) and Hypothalamic Gliomas.- Pituicytomas and Sellar Ependymomas.- Granular Cell Tumor.- Germ Cell Tumor.- Olfactory Neuroblastoma and Sellar Neuroblastoma.- Hypothalamic Hamartoma.- Plasmacytoma.- Lymphoma.- Gangliocytoma and Ganglioglioma.- Spindle Cell Oncocytoma.- Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma and Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Paranasal Sinuses.- Sinonasal Melanoma.- Sinonasal Adenocarcinoma.- Sinonasal Undifferentiated Carcinoma (SNUC).- Fibrosarcoma of the Sellar Region.- Juvenile Nasopharyngeal Angiofibroma (JNA).- Metastatic Tumors to the Pituitary Gland.- Spontaneous Abscess of the Sellar Region.- Invasive Fungal Sinusitis and Fungal Abscess of the Sella.- Mucocele and Mucopyocele.- Sellar Tuberculosis.- Neurocysticercosis of the Sellar Region.- Granulomatous Conditions.- InflammatoryHypophysitis.- Demyelinating Diseases: Multiple Sclerosis and Neuromyelitis Optica.- Cerebral Aneurysms with Intrasellar Extension.- Arteriovenous Malformations.- Cavernous Malformations (Angiomas) of the Sellar and Suprasellar Region.- Vascular Fistulas of the Sellar and Parasellar Region.- Carotid Artery Dolichoectasia and Kissing Internal Carotid Arteries.- Sheehan's Pituitary Infarction.- Persistent Trigeminal Artery of the Sellar Region.- Meningoceles and Encephaloceles.- Empty Sella Syndrome.- Pituitary Hypoplasia and Other Midline Developmental Anomalies.- Duplication of the Pituitary Gland.- Fibrous Dysplasia.- Basilar Impression and Invagination.- Traumatic Injury, Pituitary Stalk Disruption, and Posttraumatic Anosmia.- Spontaneous, Traumatic, and Postoperative CSF Rhinorrhea.- Pseudoaneurysms of the Internal Carotid Artery in the Sellar Region.- Iatrogenic Pituitary Abscess.