Intracranial lipomas are extremely rare fat-containing lesions that comprise 0.1%-0.5% of all primary brain tumors. They are congenital lesions that arise due to persistence and maldifferentiation of the meninx primitive (subarachnoid space precursor). We report a case of a 30-year-old woman who presented with seizures due to an intracranial lipoma and no neurological deficits. CT (computerized tomography) imaging findings demonstrated a large interhemispheric partially calcified lipoma that communicated with a large scalp lipoma and was associated with agenesis of the corpus callosum. Compared to the prior CT imaging, the lipoma increased in size from 3.4 cm to 4.1 cm transversely. A recent CT angiogram done due to suspicion of an aneurysm showed the lipoma now measuring 6 cm by 4.7 cm. Most cases of intracranial lipoma have been reported in the pediatric age group. Here, we report a rare case of interhemispheric intracranial lipoma in the adult age group. This case also demonstrates the importance of imaging modalities for detecting intracranial lipoma without performing invasive brain biopsy.
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Department of Medicine, UNISUL, Palhoça, Brazil.
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