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A 55 year lady having severe attack of headache, vomiting & giddiness, diagnosed as acute attack of migraine & kept on prophylactic treatment of migraine — Propranolol- cipler after controlling the acute attack by emidixyn, vasograin & sarotena. On subsequent similar attack, X-ray skull lateral view showed enlarged sella. But ophthalmoscopy & visual fields were normal. There was no may sign of pituitary tumor, so it was diagnosed as empty sella syndrome. C. T. Scan of head confirmed it as empty sella.
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Jaiswal, S.K. Empty sella syndrome. Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 52, 91–93 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02996447
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