Roentgen diagnosis of diseases of the head . SAC F Fig. 59.—Sketch of a very deep sella. The dorsum is extremely thin and is some-what pushed backward. The floor of the sella closely approximates the outline of thefloor of the middle cranial fossa. D. Dorsum sellse. F. Floor of the sella. AM. Alaminor of the sphenoid. ACP. Anterior clinoid processes. O. Roof of the orbit. sphenoidale. MCF. Outline of the middle cranial fossa. hypophysis was found. (Hirsch, Wiener Tdinische TVocli en sell rift, 1911,p. 109.) Case 6.—F., female, thirty-eight years old. Typical acromegaly. On the roentg


Roentgen diagnosis of diseases of the head . SAC F Fig. 59.—Sketch of a very deep sella. The dorsum is extremely thin and is some-what pushed backward. The floor of the sella closely approximates the outline of thefloor of the middle cranial fossa. D. Dorsum sellse. F. Floor of the sella. AM. Alaminor of the sphenoid. ACP. Anterior clinoid processes. O. Roof of the orbit. sphenoidale. MCF. Outline of the middle cranial fossa. hypophysis was found. (Hirsch, Wiener Tdinische TVocli en sell rift, 1911,p. 109.) Case 6.—F., female, thirty-eight years old. Typical acromegaly. On the roentgenogram the sella was widened and deepened to a consid-erable degree. The dorsum was thinned, elongated, and tipped backward. 184 ROENTGEN DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASES OF THE HEAD Case 7.—]).. female, thirty-five years old. Typical acromegaly. (Teleky,Wiener Jclinischt Wochenschrift, 1911, p. !»i4.) On tlic roentgenogram the sella was evenly widened in moderate degreeand the dorsum was Fig. 60.—A sinistrodextral picture of sella erosion in a patient with a tumor ofthe hypophysis associated with acromegaly. The sella is wide and deep, the dorsumis pushed backward and the anterior clinoid processes are plump.


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