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Alvaro Campero1, Pablo Ajler, Ezequiel Goldschmidt, Damián Bendersky, Abraham Campero.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Tension pneumocephalus is uncommon after transsphenoidal surgery. There are only few cases reported in the literature in which the air was located at the sellar region exclusively, constituting a sellar pneumocele. In this article, an unusual case of a late onset tension sellar pneumocele is reported. CASE DESCRIPTION: A 57-year-old woman consulted because of bitemporal hemianopsia. She had undergone a transnasal surgery for pituitary adenoma and a shunt had been placed because of the presence of cerebrospinal fluid leakage. Furthermore, the patient had undergone a transcranial resection of an intracavernous component of the tumor and radiosurgical treatment had been perfomed too because of its aggressiveness. A magnetic resonance imaging was undertaken and it demonstrated a sellar and suprasellar pneumocele. INTERVENTION: A transcilliary approach was performed. The sellar region was enclosed by scarring tissue from her earlier procedures. The scar was opened and the air was evacuated. The sellar floor was subsequently closed with fat and fibrin glue. After the procedure, her visual field returned to normal. One year after her last surgery, she is still asymptomatic.Entities:
Year: 2012 PMID: 23596554 PMCID: PMC3627815 DOI: 10.4103/2152-7806.104404
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Surg Neurol Int ISSN: 2152-7806
Figura 1(a,b) RMI, secuencia T1 con contraste que muestra un macroadenoma de hipófisis con realce heterogéneo e invasión del seno cavernoso derecho, (c,d) RMI postoperatoria en la misma secuencia, se observa un remanente tumoral en el seno cavernoso derecho
Figura 2(a) Corte coronal en secuencia T1 con contraste que muestra crecimiento tumoral asociado a la presencia de un quiste supraselar, (b) Control postoperatorio que demuestra la resección completa
Figura 3(a,b) Cortes sagital y coronal de RMI en secuencia T1 con contraste que señala un neumoencéfalo a tensión localizado únicamente en las regiones selar y supraselar, (c,d) Cortes sagital y coronal que evidencian la resolución complete del mismo