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A small sella turcica is a normal anatomical variant responsible for an inadequacy between the sellar volume and its content, with a resultant bulging of the pituitary gland. It can mimic a pathological enlargement of the pituitary gland and, if not recognized, can lead to a false diagnosis of “pituitary hyperplasia” or even pituitary tumor. This is particularly true in teenage females with physiological enlargement of the pituitary gland.
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Bonneville JF (2002) When the pituitary swells up a little. J Radiol 83(3):319–320
Cattin F, Bonneville JF, Tang YS (1990) Diagnostic d’une hypophyse convexe. Rev Inst Med 2:221–228
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Bonneville, JF., Cattin, F. (2016). Small Sella and Convex Pituitary Gland. In: MRI of the Pituitary Gland. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29043-0_3
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