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Traumatic Injury of the Sellar Region, Pituitary Stalk Disruption, and Posttraumatic Anosmia

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  1. Department of Neurological Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1200 N State Street, #3300, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA

    Gabriel Zada MD, MS

  2. Department of Pathology (Neuropathology), University of Virginia School of Medicine, 1215 Lee Street, Room 3060–HEP, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA

    M. Beatriz S. Lopes MD, PhD

  3. Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Srinivasan Mukundan Jr. PhD, MD

  4. Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 15 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Edward Laws Jr. MD

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, University of Southern California, LOS ANGELES, California, USA

    Gabriel Zada

  2. Department of Pathology, University of Virginia, CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, USA

    M. Beatriz S. Lopes

  3. Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA

    Srinivasan Mukundan Jr.

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    Edward R. Laws Jr.

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Zada, G., Lopes, M.B.S., Mukundan, S., Laws, E. (2016). Traumatic Injury of the Sellar Region, Pituitary Stalk Disruption, and Posttraumatic Anosmia. In: Zada, G., Lopes, M., Mukundan Jr., S., Laws Jr., E. (eds) Atlas of Sellar and Parasellar Lesions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22855-6_72

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