Suprasellar osteolipoma: case report. Academic Article

abstract

• BACKGROUND: Osteolipomas are distinguished from other intracranial lipomas by their arrangement of central adipose and peripheral osseous tissues and by characteristically arising in the suprasellar/interpeduncular region. METHODS: We report computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and pathology findings from this 34-year-old man who underwent surgical removal of this benign lesion. RESULTS: This case displays the distinctive histopathology that has been reported in 13 of 31 (42%) lipomas in this region. In contrast, ossification of lipomas at other intracranial sites is relatively rare. CONCLUSIONS: Ossification should be expected in many suprasellar/interpeduncular lipomas, and osteolipoma should be included in the radiologic differential diagnosis of fat-intensity masses with calcification in this region.

authors

• Wells, Gregg

published proceedings

• Surg Neurol

author list (cited authors)

• Sinson, G., Gennarelli, T. A., & Wells, G. B.

citation count

• 30

complete list of authors

• Sinson, G||Gennarelli, TA||Wells, GB

publication date

• January 1998

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Surgical Neurology  Journal

keywords

• Adult
• Basilar Artery
• Bone Neoplasms
• Calcinosis
• Cerebral Arterial Diseases
• Diagnosis, Differential
• Humans
• Intracranial Aneurysm
• Lipoma
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Male
• Sella Turcica
• Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/s0090-3019(97)00152-3

start page

• 457

end page

• 460

volume

• 50

issue

• 5

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0090-3019(97)00152-3