Abstract
The sellar contents are separated from the sphenoidal sinus by a tiny sheath of bone that compris es the sellar floor, making the transsphenoidal approach the most used surgical route to intrasellar lesions. The transsphenoidal approach can be initiated in three different ways: 1) cutting the mucosa over the alveolar part of maxilla (sublabial transsphenoidal), 2) cutting along the anterior nasal mucosa adjacent to the columella (transeptal transsphenoidal), and 3) cutting the mucosa over the sphenoidal rostrum (endonasal transsphenoidal). Each cavernous sinus has four dural walls. The lateral, superior and posterior walls are composed of endosteal and periosteal dura leaflets. Unlike the other dural walls, the medial wall is formed of a single, thin dural sheath, an anatomical fact that help explains the lateral expansion of a pituitary adenoma. In the center, the diaphragm sellae has an opening through which the infundibulum courses, linking the pituitary gland to the floor of the third ventricle. The morphology of this opening is quite variable among individuals. On average, the anteroposterior distance of the diaphragm opening was 7.26 mm + 1.99 mm, varying from 3.4 mm up to 10.7 mm. The lateral distance of the diaphragm opening was 7.33 mm + 2.79 mm, varying from 2.8 mm up to 14.1 mm.
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