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Korean Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
;
: 916-918, 1999.
Article
in Korean
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-645859
ABSTRACT
The empty sella syndrome is applied to the abnormal extension into the sella turcica of an arachnoid diverticulum filled with CSF, which displace and compresses the pituitary gland. Such a diverticulum can erode the sellar floor and lead to CSF rhinorrhea through the sphenoid sinus. Recently we experienced a case of the spontaneous CSF rhinorrhea associated with the empty sella syndrome in a 55 year-old woman. The CSF leakage was repaired successfully by sublabial, transseptal, transsph-enoidal approach.