We describe a 56-year-old man with an intrasellar craniopharyngioma who underwent transphenoidal resection and abdominal fat grafting of the dural opening. Follow-up MRI showed hypertrophy of the sellar fat graft concurrent with the patient's weight gain. To our best of knowledge sellar fat graft hypertrophy has not been reported before.
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