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Case Report

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1993;36(3):423-427. Published online March 15, 1993.

A Case of Intracranial Lipoma

Hyun Cheol HC Lee¹, Hae Yong HY Lee¹, Jae Seung JS Yang¹, Beak Keun BK Lim¹, Jong Soo JS Kim¹

¹Department of Pediatrics, Yonsei University, Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Korea

Abstract

While lipomas are common in the rest of the rest of the body, intracranial lipomas are rare condition which are usually found in the midline of the brain. The majority of these lesions show few or even no symptoms and hardly ever produce alarming neurological defects. We experienced a case of corpus callosum lopoma in a 7 year old boy, who has had headache and loss of consciousness twice. He was diagnosed by skull x-rays and brain CT. We Made a brief review of literatures.

Keywords :Intracranial lipoma, Corpus callosum