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Empty sella turcica with pituitary tissue compressed against the sellar floor and lateral stalk deviation (MRI)

Cranial MRI of a 66-year-old woman with hypopituitarism due to Sheehan syndrome more than 30 years earlier after her last delivery was complicated by postpartum hemorrhage. The images show an empty sella turcica (arrows) with pituitary tissue compressed against the sellar floor with lateral stalk deviation. (Source: Vasconcelos AL, Pinto Ribeiro R, Claúdio Ferreira P, Maciel J, Araújo R. A case report of Sheehan syndrome: a rare cause of hypopituitarism. Cureus 2024;16(2):e53544. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International [CC BY 4.0] license, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.)

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