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Undiagnosed intracranial lipoma associated with sudden death

Author(s) -

Carlos Durão,

Frederico Pedrosa

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

human pathology case reports

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.132

H-Index - 5

ISSN - 2214-3300

DOI - 10.1016/j.ehpc.2016.06.001

Subject(s) - autopsy , lipoma , asymptomatic , medicine , corpus callosum , sudden death , atrophy , epilepsy , cause of death , pediatrics , surgery , pathology , cardiology , psychiatry , disease

Intracranial lipomas represent less than 0.1% of all intracranial tumors. They are usually located in the callus area and often asymptomatic. This paper presents a sudden death case after an episode of convulsions on a 39years old woman with a history of migraines and seizures since adolescence. The autopsy revealed the presence of an undiagnosed massive brain lipoma (60×35mm) associated with atrophy of the corpus callosum. Although very rare and seldom malignant these may be associated with seizures and sudden death

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