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We describe the normal dural enhancement patterns of the sellar region and determine whether the duramater is affected by pituitary macroadenomas. Dural enhancement appeared to be usually abnormal in 20 patients with pituitary macroadenoma compared with 20 control patients, mainly at the planum sphenoidale and carotid sulcus. However dural changes are subtle and their recognition requires knowledge of the normal enhancement patterns. Dural changes, reported in a variety of inflammatory and infectious dural diseases and after surgery, are not specific and may be also seen in pituitary macroadenomas.
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Received: 12 December 1998 Accepted: 3 November 1999
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Cattin, F., Bonneville, F., Andréa, I. et al. Dural enhancement in pituitary macroadenomas. Neuroradiology 42, 505–508 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002340000346
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