ea0022p230 | Clinical case reports and clinical practice | ECE2010
Kreitschmann-Andermahr Ilonka
, Francis Flverly
, Mull Michael
, Streetz-van-der-Werf Christine
, Hans Franz-Josef
We report a 61-year-old lady with sudden onset diplopia caused by abducent palsy which was initially right- and later left-sided. MRI scanning revealed an extensive sellar and suprasellar mass and the lady was referred to our department for transphenoidal surgery with the imaging diagnosis of pituitary adenoma. Upon close inspection of the films, cavernous sinus invasion of the tumour as a morphologic correlate of the N. VI palsy was missing; however, there was an unusual cont...