Intracranial Lipoma

ABSTRACT

Intracranial lipoma is a rare condition, though lipoma in other sites can be found throughout the body. Many authors have reported intracranial lipoma since Rokitansky and Soman who described first in autopsy and living patient respectively. Intracranial lipoma can be diagnosed simply be simple skull and computed tomography. The authors experienced three cases of intracranial lipoma diagnosed by simple skull, tomography, cerebral angiography and computed tomography, and reported with a brief review of the literature.