A Case of Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea Associated with Primary Empty Sella Syndrome / 대한이비인후과학회지

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.