This book presents, in a stepwise and interactive fashion, approximately 75 cases that reflect the wide spectrum of pathology encountered in this region. Each case description commences with a concise clinical scenario. High-quality radiologic, laboratory, and histopathologic images depicting the differentiating features of the lesion subtype in question are then presented, and key operative and clinical management pearls are briefly reviewed.  The interdisciplinary nature of this easy-to-use color atlas and textbook reflects the fact that the management of patients with sellar and parasellar lesions is itself often interdisciplinary. The format is unique in that no similar interdisciplinary book is available on lesions of this region of the brain.Atlas of Sellar and Parasellar Lesions: Clinical, Imaging, and Pathologic Correlations is of great value for practitioners and trainees in a range of medical specialties, including radiology, neurology, endocriniology, pathology, oncology, radiation oncology, and neurosurgery.

Interdisciplinary, easy-to-use color atlas and textbook

Anatomy of the Sellar and Parasellar Region.- Imaging of the Sellar Region.- Pituitary Physiology and Endocrinology.- Pathology and Molecular Biology of the Pituitary Region.- The Direct Endoscopic Endonasal Transsphenoidal Approach to the Pituitary Gland.- Transcranial and Skull Base Surgical Approaches to the Sellar and Parasellar Region.- Radiosurgery of the Sellar and Parasellar Region.- The Normal Pituitary Gland.- Pituitary Hyperplasia.- Nonfunctioning Pituitary Adenomas.- Prolactinomas.- Somatotroph (GH) Adenomas.- Corticotroph (ACTH) Adenomas.- Silent Corticotroph (ACTH) Adenomas.- Thyrotroph (TSH) Adenomas.- Gonadotroph Adenomas.- Pituitary Apoplexy.- Atypical Pituitary Adenomas.- Pituitary Carcinoma.- Ectopic Pituitary Adenomas.- Craniopharyngioma.- Rathke Cleft Cyst.- Xanthogranuloma of the Sellar Region.- Petrous Apex Cholesterol Granuloma.- Sellar Region Arachnoid Cyst.- Sellar Region Epidermoid and Dermoid Cysts.- Colloid Cyst of the Sellar Region.- Meningioma.- Hemangiopericytoma.-  Schwannomas of the Sellar and Parasellar Region.- Chordoma and Chondrosarcoma.- Hemangioblastoma.- Cavernous Sinus Cavernous Hemangioma.- Optic Pathway (Opticochiasmatic) and Hypothalamic Gliomas.- Pituicytomas and Sellar Ependymomas.- Granular Cell Tumor.- Germ Cell Tumor.- Olfactory Neuroblastoma and Sellar Neuroblastoma.- Hypothalamic Hamartoma.- Plasmacytoma.- Lymphoma.- Gangliocytoma and Ganglioglioma.- Spindle Cell Oncocytoma.- Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma and Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Paranasal Sinuses.- Sinonasal Melanoma.- Sinonasal Adenocarcinoma.- Sinonasal Undifferentiated Carcinoma (SNUC).- Fibrosarcoma of the Sellar Region.- Juvenile Nasopharyngeal Angiofibroma (JNA).- Metastatic Tumors to the Pituitary Gland.- Spontaneous Abscess of the Sellar Region.- Invasive Fungal Sinusitis and Fungal Abscess of the Sella.- Mucocele and Mucopyocele.- Sellar Tuberculosis.- Neurocysticercosis of the Sellar Region.- Granulomatous Conditions.- InflammatoryHypophysitis.- Demyelinating Diseases: Multiple Sclerosis and Neuromyelitis Optica.- Cerebral Aneurysms with Intrasellar Extension.- Arteriovenous Malformations.- Cavernous Malformations (Angiomas) of the Sellar and Suprasellar Region.- Vascular Fistulas of the Sellar and Parasellar Region.- Carotid Artery Dolichoectasia and Kissing Internal Carotid Arteries.- Sheehan's Pituitary Infarction.- Persistent Trigeminal Artery of the Sellar Region.- Meningoceles and Encephaloceles.- Empty Sella Syndrome.- Pituitary Hypoplasia and Other Midline Developmental Anomalies.- Duplication of the Pituitary Gland.- Fibrous Dysplasia.- Basilar Impression and Invagination.- Traumatic Injury, Pituitary Stalk Disruption, and Posttraumatic Anosmia.- Spontaneous, Traumatic, and Postoperative CSF Rhinorrhea.- Pseudoaneurysms of the Internal Carotid Artery in the Sellar Region.- Iatrogenic Pituitary Abscess.