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Ocular Symptoms of Tumors at Sella Turcica Region
Xiangping, Fu, Hongqi, WangDepartment, Neuro-ophthalmology, Xijing, Xian
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Abstract
Background: The sella tumors were found in 15% of intracranial tumors. The sella turcica region locates in the base of skull, so the carcinoma patients in early stage often showed no intracranial hypertension and other positive signs of neural system. However, the patients presented visual field defect and hypopsia, and often went to see the doctor of ophthalmology, which resulted from that the tumor often compressed optic nerve and chiasm. We analysed the symptomatic changes of the visual organs in order to provide a diagnositic basis for sellar tumor in oph-thalmological department.Clinical materials: Of the 407 cases of sellar tumors, 296 were pituitary adenoma, 52 were craniopharyngioma, 43 were meningioma, and the rest 16 were other kinds of sellar tumors. We analysed their ocular changes of the sellar tumors and the characteristics of the tumors.Results: The sellar tumor in its early stage is mainly symptomized as visual field changes. Visual field defect was found in 92. 9% of pituitary adenoma,