TY - JOUR T1 - Primary intrasellar schwannoma. AU - Cugati,Goutham, AU - Singh,Manish, AU - Symss,Nigel Peter, AU - Pande,Anil, AU - Yasha,T C, AU - Vasudevan,Madhabushi Chakravarthy, AU - Ramamurthi,Ravi, Y1 - 2012/09/05/ PY - 2011/05/31/received PY - 2011/09/05/revised PY - 2011/09/07/accepted PY - 2012/9/11/entrez PY - 2012/9/11/pubmed PY - 2013/3/8/medline SP - 1584 EP - 5 JF - Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia JO - J Clin Neurosci VL - 19 IS - 11 N2 - Intracranial schwannomas commonly arise from the eighth cranial nerve in the cerebellopontine angle. Schwannoma arising in the sella and extending into the suprasellar region is very rare and is easily mistaken for pituitary adenoma. To our knowledge, there have been only 12 previous reports. We present a patient with primary intrasellar schwannoma that clinically and radiologically resembled a pituitary adenoma (PA). Intra-operative findings differed from a PA, as the tumour had a firmer consistency. Gross total excision of the lesion was done via a transethmosphenoidal approach. Post-operatively the patient improved in visual acuity and visual fields. We have reviewed the literature and described the characteristics of such lesions. SN - 1532-2653 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/22959445/Primary_intrasellar_schwannoma_ DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -