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Cns lipoma

(Science: radiology) Incidence: less than1% of brain tumours, age: presentation in childhood/adulthood, associated with agenesis of corpus callosum in 50%, assymptomatic in 50% location: genu of corpus callosum (25-50%), tuber cinerum, quadrigeminal region, chiasmatic, interpeduncular, sylvian, CP angle, and cerebellomedullary cisterns findings: -100 HU on CT, occasionally calcified rim (especially in corpus callosum), no enhancement, hyperintense on t1 (characteristic)