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Radiology of The Sella Turcica pp 135–148Cite as

Presellar Pathology

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Pathology of the presellar region has traditionally been typified by optic glioma in the child and presellar meningioma in the adult. In addition to these two particular diseases, routine examination of the presellar region may be very useful in everyday X-ray diagnosis.

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  1. University Hospital of Besançon, 2, Place Saint Jacques, F-25030, Besançon, France

    Jean François Bonneville M.D. (Professor of Radiology, Head of Department of Neuroradiology)

  2. Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital of Strasbourg, 1, Place de l’Hôpital, F-67091, Strasbourg, France

    Jean Louis Dietemann M.D.

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Bonneville, J.F., Dietemann, J.L. (1981). Presellar Pathology. In: Radiology of The Sella Turcica. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67786-1_8

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