Myelolipomatous change in an interhemispheric lipoma associated with corpus callosum agenesis: case report

Neurosurgery. 2008 Mar;62(3):E745; discussion E745. doi: 10.1227/01.neu.0000317326.09601.51.

Abstract

Objective: Interhemisperic lipomas are almost always associated with hypogenesis or agenesis of the corpus callosum. These lesions are stable.

Clinical presentation: We report a case of an interhemispheric lipoma in a 72-year-old man who had undergone myelolipomatous differentiation.

Intervention: Gross total excision of the lesion was performed.

Conclusion: Although extremely uncommon, the possibility of myelomatous change should be considered in the differential diagnosis of an intracranial lipoma if it shows some areas of mixed density.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Brain Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Brain Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Corpus Callosum / diagnostic imaging*
  • Corpus Callosum / surgery*
  • Humans
  • Lipoma / diagnosis
  • Lipoma / surgery
  • Male
  • Myelolipoma / diagnosis*
  • Myelolipoma / surgery*
  • Radiography
  • Treatment Outcome