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1Department of Orthodontics, University of Copenhagen School of Dentistry, Denmark.
Pediatric Neurology
|March 30, 2000
Abstract:
The sella turcica and pituitary gland in a human fetus (18 weeks gestation) with unilateral oro-ocular cleft combined with unilateral cleft lip and palate are described histologically. In this fetus the sella turcica was not a normal sella but a caudally open funnel. The adenopituitary gland tissue was positioned ectopically within the funnel canal and in the pharyngeal submucosa.