Table 9.
Pituitary MR imaging results of patients
| Groups | Total S% |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SS (n=32) n% | Non-SS (n=40) n% | |||||
| -Empty sella | 25 | 78.1 | 3 | 7.5 | 28 | 38.8 |
| -Partial empty sella | 7 | 21.8 | 5 | 12.5 | 12 | 16.6 |
| -Microadenoma | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2.7 |
| -Macroadenoma | 0 | 0 | 21 | 52.5 | 21 | 29.1 |
| -Lymphocytic hypophysitis | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2.5 | 1 | 1.3 |
| -Ectopic neuropituitary+pituitary hypoplasia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2.5 | 1 | 1.3 |
| -Langerhans cell histiocytosis | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2.5 | 1 | 1.3 |
| -Craniopharyngioma** | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2.5 | 1 | 1.3 |
| -Normal | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2.7 |
| -Pituitary stalk compression (pseudotumor cerebri, germ cell tumor) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2.7 |
| -Mass in dorsum sella and clivus region (small round cell tumor)** | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2.5 | 1 | 1.3 |
| TOTAL | 32 | 100 | 40 | 100 | 72 | 100 |
SS: Sheehan syndrome n: number, **Postoperative pituitary failure group patients.