Abstract
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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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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