Author(s)

Ousmane Traore^1,2, Alassane Kouma¹, Souleymane Sanogo¹, Mamadou N’Diaye³, Ouncoumba Diarra⁴, Mahamadou Diallo⁵, Adama Diaman Keita²

¹Radiology Department of the Medical Clinic “The STARS”, Bamako, Mali.
²Radiology Department of the “G” Point University Hospital Center, Bamako, Mali.
³Radiology Department of the Health Center of the Military Camp, Bamako, Mali.
⁴Radiology Department of the Reference Health Center of Municipality III, Bamako, Mali.
⁵Radiology Department of the Gabriel Toure University Hospital Center (CHU), Bamako, Mali.

Intrasellar arachnoidocele is a herniation of the optochiasmatic cistern through a dehiscence of the sellar diaphragm producing an empty sella turcica, hence its name empty sella turcica syndrome. It is an extremely rare benign malformative pathology. We report a case of intra-sellar arachnoidocele in a 34-year-old woman revealed during an annual control of a sellar mass under dossinex by cerebral magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) which found the cystic formation of liquid signal identical to that of the LCS in hypo signal T1 and hyper signal T2 without enhancement after injection of Gadolinium. The epidemiological, clinical and radiological aspects of arachnoidocele were analyzed. The purpose of this work is to bring the interest of MRI in the management of this pathology.

Arachnoidocele, Arachnoid Cyst, Sellar, MRI, Bamako

Traore, O. , Kouma, A. , Sanogo, S. , N’Diaye, M. , Diarra, O. , Diallo, M. and Keita, A. (2022) Intra-Sellary Arachniodocele: About a Case at the Medical Clinic “The Stars” of Bamako. Open Journal of Medical Imaging, 12, 190-194. doi: 10.4236/ojmi.2022.124020.