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Malignant sellar, parasellar and skull base tumors

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CT and MRI in Oncology

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Abstract

Accurate imaging by CT and particularly MRI is indicated in cases where the endocrinological and /or secondary neurological signs point to a tumor involving the sellar, parasellar regions or the skull base.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Centre d’Imagerie Scanner Paris 14, 119 avenue du Général Leclerc, 75014, Paris, France

    Didier Buthiau (Radiologue. Ancien Chef de Clinique-Assistant des Hôpitaux de Paris) (Radiologue. Ancien Chef de Clinique-Assistant des Hôpitaux de Paris)

  2. et Centre RMX, 80 avenue Félix Faure, 75015, Paris, France

    Didier Buthiau (Radiologue. Ancien Chef de Clinique-Assistant des Hôpitaux de Paris) (Radiologue. Ancien Chef de Clinique-Assistant des Hôpitaux de Paris)

  3. Hôpital de La Salpêtrière, 47 boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75013, Paris, France

    David Khayat (Cancérologue. Professor des Universités, Praticien Hospitalier. Chef du Service d’Oncologie Médicale) (Cancérologue. Professor des Universités, Praticien Hospitalier. Chef du Service d’Oncologie Médicale)

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Grob, R. et al. (1998). Malignant sellar, parasellar and skull base tumors. In: Buthiau, D., Khayat, D. (eds) CT and MRI in Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46842-1_7

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