Lipoma of the midbrain: post-mortem finding in a patient with breast cancer

Intracranial lipomas are rare, usually do not have clinical expression and are located mare frequently in the corpus callosum. Other locations include the spinal cord, midbrain tectum, superior vermis, tuber cinereum, infundibulum and more rarely cerebellopontine angle, hypothalamus, superior medull...

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Main Authors: Verônica Maia Gouvea, Myriam Dumas Hahn, Leila Chimelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Neurologia (ABNEURO) 1989-09-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X1989000300021&lng=en&tlng=en