Empty Sella and Pituitary Gland

Abstract

It is no longer necessary to point out the important practical value of tomodensitometry (TDM) for diagnosing empty sellae nor the great advantage of being able to measure the density of the intrasellar contents. In practice it is now very easy to distinguish the intrasellar densities of the parenchyma from the liquid-like densities and thus argue in favour of either a hypophysial tumoral mass or an intrasellar liquid mass, the so-called “empty sella”. However, besides the problem of determining its density, there is also that of the morphology of the sellar contents, which the following case report demonstrates particularly well.