Roentgen diagnosis of diseases of the head . Fig. 40. —Sella of a child nine years old. .S is the sphenooccipital fissure. succeed in obtaining this by a sagittal picture. Nevertheless,experience teaches that one obtains enough evidence for thedetermination of the size of the hypophyseal fossa from thedetails of the transverse picture alone, especially since no sig-nificant variations in size of the sella occur normally as a considerable decrees of hypophyseal enlargement make INTRACRANIAL DISEASES 167 themselves noticeable in the roentgenogram of the sella. Forexample, it is not pos


Roentgen diagnosis of diseases of the head . Fig. 40. —Sella of a child nine years old. .S is the sphenooccipital fissure. succeed in obtaining this by a sagittal picture. Nevertheless,experience teaches that one obtains enough evidence for thedetermination of the size of the hypophyseal fossa from thedetails of the transverse picture alone, especially since no sig-nificant variations in size of the sella occur normally as a considerable decrees of hypophyseal enlargement make INTRACRANIAL DISEASES 167 themselves noticeable in the roentgenogram of the sella. Forexample, it is not possible to determine roentgenographicallythe swelling of the hypophysis during pregnancy, which latter. Fig. 41.—Sella of a child twelve years old. SS is the posterior wall of thesphenoidal sinus.


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