Abstract:
The sella turcica mass is a common disease, which do not
arise from brain tissue itself, a very important group is that
originating from pituitary gland.
The main objective of this study is to compare and evaluate
the role of conventional x-ray as screening for diagnosis sella
turcica mass.
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The study has been carried out during the period from Oct
2002 up to Sept 2003 at Modern Medical Center, Police Hospital,
Salvation Medical KH and Elshab Hospital.
The researcher randomally collected data from 20 patients
request forms with different clinical symptoms and average age
between 10 up to 70 years.
The result showed that the 20 cases with the suggestion of
sellar mass are classified as the following:
8 cases were pituitary adenoma [3 males + 5 females].
5 cases were parasellar masses [all cases males].
4 cases were suprasellar masses [2 male + 2 females].
3 cases were craniopharyngioma [all cases males].
The researcher found that 8 cases out of total cases showed
widend of sella turcica shape and size on lateral skull x-ray
This enable more confident diagnosis to be entertained. Also
it was possible through CT scan to stage the patients with sellar
mass, while this was not possible by conventional x-ray.
As a conclusion conventional x-ray may, act as guide in some
cases of sellar masses .
Never the less, CT gave more details informations about the
lesion site, size, edge characteristic and lesion densi.
