Pediatric Sellar & Parasellar Lesions: Mri Characteristics

Pediatric brain tumors have always been challenging as well as intriguing in their anatomical, surgical, and postsurgical management-related issues. They are a heterogeneous set of pathologies involving different age groups in childhood and also differ widely from their adult counterparts as far as adjuvant therapies are concerned. Our objective is to review the MR imaging characteristics and applications of sellar & parasellar lesions in the pediatric population. Specifically, we review 3 cases of craniopharyngiomas, 2 cases of hypothalamic hamartomas & 1 case of each pituitary colloid cyst, parasellar retinoblastoma, pns rhabdomyosarcoma with sellar extension.