ArticleSurgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA2026
Development of the dorsum sellae in children: a CT study.
Article in Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Dorsum Sellae Morphology in Chiari Malformation Type I: A CT-Based Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectiveThe study aimed to determine alterations in the size and pneumatization pattern of the dorsum sellae (DS) in children aged 1–18 years.
methodsComputed tomography views of 360 subjects were included in the study. DS width (SB-W) and thickness (ML-T) were measured. The angle between DS and the floor of the hypophyseal fossa (DS-A) were measured. Furthermore, DS heights at the middle part (ML-H), at the left lateral margin (LLM-H), and at the right lateral margin (RLM-H) were measured. DS pneumatization was classified as four types: type 0: no pneumatization, type 1: pneumatization < 50%, type 2: pneumatization > 50%, and type 3: total pneumatization.
resultsSB-W increased up to prepubescent period (p < 0.001), but thereafter showed no statistically significant change. RLM-H, LLM-H, and ML-H increased until the postpubescent period (p < 0.001). ML-T showed a pattern of first decreasing and then increasing with advancing age (p < 0.001). DS-A decreased until the postpubescent period (p < 0.001). Four configurations related to DS pneumatization were defined as follows: type 0 in 289 cases (80.3%), type 1 in 57 cases (15.8%), type 2 in 10 cases (2.8%), and type 3 in four cases (1.1%). The incidence of DS pneumatization was affected by age (p < 0.001), but not sex (p = 0.596).
conclusionsDS dimensions continue to change up to adulthood, likely due to increasing pneumatization. DS anatomy should be considered by neurosurgeons to reduce the risk of complications while performing posterior clinoidectomy.
Indexed as
Identifiers
41670706What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.