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 Correlationsis of great value for practitioners and trainees in a range of medical specialties, including radiology, neurology, endocriniology, pathology, oncology, radiation oncology, and neurosurgery.

Gabriel Zada, MD, MS
Department of Neurological Surgery
Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California
1975 Zonal Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA

gzada@usc.edu

M. Beatriz S. Lopes, MD, PhD

Department of Pathology (Neuropathology)

University of Virginia School of Medicine

1215 Lee Street, Room 3060HEP

Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA

msl2e@virginia.edu

Srinivasan Mukundan, Jr, PhD, MD

Department of Radiology

Brigham and Womens Hospital

75 Francis Street

Boston, MA 02115 USA
smukundan@partners.org

Edward Laws, Jr, MD
Department of Neurosurgery
Brigham and Womens Hospital
Harvard Medical School
15 Francis Street
Boston, MA 02115, USA

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.- Sheehans 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.