The determination of the pituitary gland, optic chiasm, and intercavernous distance measurements in healthy subjects according to age and gender.

Background: This paper was undertaken to determine the morphometry of pituitary gland diameter, pituitary gland height, intercavernous distance, optic chiasm diameter and optic chiasm height in skulls of Turkish population aged between 18 and 60 years.Materials and Methods: It was a retrospective st...

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Publicado en:Folia Morphologica Vol. 79; no. 1; pp. 28 - 36
Autores principales: Polat, S. Ö., Öksüzler, F. Y., Öksüzler, M., Uygur, A. G., Yücel, A. H.
Formato: diagnostic images research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: VM Medica-VM Group (Via Medica) 2020
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        atl: The determination of the pituitary gland, optic chiasm, and intercavernous distance measurements in healthy subjects according to age and gender.
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          Polat, S. Ö.
          Öksüzler, F. Y.
          Öksüzler, M.
          Uygur, A. G.
          Yücel, A. H.
        affil: Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey
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          Pituitary Gland Anatomy and Histology
          Optic Nerve Anatomy and Histology
          Research Subjects
          Young Adult
          Adolescence
          Female
          Turkiye
          Adult
          Magnetic Resonance Imaging
          Sphenoid Bone Anatomy and Histology
          Middle Age
          Male
          Human
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Middle Aged: 45-64 years
          Female
          Male
      ab: Background: This paper was undertaken to determine the morphometry of pituitary gland diameter, pituitary gland height, intercavernous distance, optic chiasm diameter and optic chiasm height in skulls of Turkish population aged between 18 and 60 years.Materials and Methods: It was a retrospective study in which 292 subjects were included 187 females and 105 males, ranging from 18 up to 60 years. Subjects underwent brain magnetic resonance imaging in the Radiology Department. Statistical analysis was performed with SPSS 21.00 programme. ANOVA test, χ2 test, and Pearson correlation analysis were used to determine the relation and significance between measurements and age group. The p < 0.05 value was considered as significant.Results: The groups were divided into five groups according to age. The overall means and standard deviations of the measurements were: pituitary gland width, 13.09 ± 1.99 mm; pituitary gland height, 4.91 ± 1.10 mm; intercavernous distance, 15.93 ± 3.05 mm; optic chiasm width, 12.82 ± 1.27 mm; and optic chiasm height, 2.80 ± 0.49 mm in females, respectively whereas, the same measurements were 12.96 ± 1.74 mm; 4.79 ± 0.95 mm; 16.08 ± 3.11 mm; 13.13 ± 1.37 mm; 2.86 ± 0.70 mm in males, respectively. Height of the pituitary gland reached a maximum in the age group of 18 to 20 years in both females and males and there was a decrease in the pituitary gland height in the subsequent age groups.Conclusions: Knowledge of the variation in the size of pituitary gland, intercavernous distance and optic chiasm is important to evaluate the dimensions of these structures for clinical and pathological processes.
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