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CNS lipoma


  • incidence: <1% of brain tumors
  • age: presentation in childhood/adulthood
  • associated with agenesis of corpus callosum in 50%
  • assymptomatic in 50%

location:
  1. genu of corpus callosum (25-50%)
  2. tuber cinerum
  3. quadrigeminal region
  4. chiasmatic, interpeduncular, sylvian, CP angle, and cerebellomedullary cisterns
findings:
  • -100 HU on CT
  • occasionally calcified rim (esp. in corpus callosum)
  • no enhancement
  • hyperintense on T1 (characteristic)


Yong H. Hahn, MD  -  2 February 1995
Last updated:  1 October 2013


 

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