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    The sella turcica (Latin for 'Turkish saddle') is a saddle-shaped depression in the body of the sphenoid bone of the human skull and of the skulls of...
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    Empty sella syndrome is the condition when the pituitary gland shrinks or becomes flattened, filling the sella turcica with cerebrospinal fluid instead...
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  • Sella Turcica is a 2010 horror film written and directed by Fred Vogel, and co-written by Shelby Vogel and Don Moore. While serving in the Middle East...
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  • The J-shaped sella sign is a radiologic sign observed on lateral views of skull radiographs as the forward elongation of the sella turcica, and its extension...
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    forms the clivus. In the sphenoid bone, the anterior boundary of the sella turcica is completed by two small eminences, one on either side, called the...
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    The empty sella sign is a radiological finding characterized by the partial or complete filling of the sella turcica with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), causing...
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    circular sheet of dura mater forming an (incomplete) roof over the sella turcica and covering the pituitary gland lodged therein. The diaphragma sellae...
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    median portion, known as the body of sphenoid bone, containing the sella turcica, which houses the pituitary gland as well as the paired paranasal sinuses...
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  • night Sella class destroyer, a type of ship used by the Italian navy Sella (grape), a French wine grape that is also known as Peloursin Sella turcica, a...
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    chickpea and sits in a pit or depression of the sphenoid bone known as the sella turcica (the Turk's saddle). The pituitary gland works in conjunction with the...
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    The tuberculum sellae (or the tubercle of the sella turcica) is a slight median elevation upon the superior aspect of the body of sphenoid bone (that...
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    the temporal bone of the skull and the sphenoid bone, lateral to the sella turcica. The cavernous sinus is one of the dural venous sinuses of the head...
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    prolactin levels in the blood. Usually, a mass will be found located on the sella turcica and loss of hormonal function. Hypophysitis may have an underlying autoimmune...
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    bone with the body of sphenoid bone. The bilateral processes flank the sella turcica anteriorly. The ACP is an important structure for cranial and endovascular...
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    posterior boundary of the sella turcica. They vary considerably in size and form. The posterior clinoid processes deepen the sella turcica, and give attachment...
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    either side of the tuberculum sellae, at the anterior boundary of the sella turcica. A (larger) anterior clinoid process is situated lateral to each middle...
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    typically runs through the petrous portion of the temporal bones and the sella turcica, potentially affecting the pituitary gland. Blood from both ears often...
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  • per the structural method. The inner contour of the anterior wall of sella turcica Walker point The anterior contour of the middle cranial fossa The contour...
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    subarachnoid space by the diaphragma sella, therefore the arachnoid mater and thus cerebral spinal fluid cannot enter the sella turcica.[citation needed] The pituitary...
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    tentorium . Behind the tuberculum sellae is a deep depression, the sella turcica, containing the fossa hypophyseos, which lodges the pituitary gland...
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    Diaphragma sellae, smallest infolding; covers the pituitary gland and sella turcica. The middle element of the meninges is the arachnoid mater, or arachnoid...
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    middle cranial fossa. It sits in a protective bony enclosure called the sella turcica, covered by the dural fold diaphragma sellae. The pituitary gland is...
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    Hollywood Betty 2010 Chop Mrs. Reed Turkish Saddle Karmen Roback Latin: Sella Turcica 2012 The Butterfly Room Olga The Lords of Salem Doris Von Fux Uncredited...
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    and prolactin.[citation needed] An MRI of the brain focusing on the sella turcica after gadolinium administration allows for clear delineation of the...
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    saddle-shaped sella turcica (Turkish seat), the deepest part of which, the hypophyseal fossa, lodges the pituitary gland. The anterior boundary of the sella turcica...
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    The pituitary gland sits in a protective bony enclosure called the sella turcica (Turkish chair/saddle). It is composed of three lobes: the anterior...
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    ectopia) chronic kidney disease intracranial tumors in or near the sella turcica, especially craniopharyngioma damage to the pituitary from radiation...
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    showing primary central nervous system B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma of the sella turcica and hypothalamus, continuing to the tectum (intensely white areas in...
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    - crista galli, cribriform plate and foramen cecum Base of skull - sella turcica The anterior, middle and posterior cranial fossa in different colors...
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  • pituitary gland is located in a recess in the skull base known as the sella turcica ("Turkish saddle", after its shape). It is attached to the hypothalamus...
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