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The sellar region usually consists of the Turkish saddle with adjacent structures located near the CSF cisterns with the hypothalamus, the bottom of third ventricle, and the cavernous sinus. Metastases to this area do not occur often, and in our cases, we observed this process more often in breast cancer. The main issue of the differential diagnosis is the clinical picture, including hormonal changes in the anterior pituitary, which may be characteristic of a number of primary tumors of the sellar region (Fig. 35.1).
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Dolgushin, M., Kornienko, V., Pronin, I. (2018). Tumors of Sellar and Parasellar Region. In: Brain Metastases. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57760-9_35
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