1. Lipidized or lipomatous meningioma, which is more appropriate? A case report
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Suzan Zorludemir, Fazilet Kayaselçuk, Filiz Bolat, M.V. Aydin, Serife Ulusan, Bulent Erdogan, and Çukurova Üniversitesi
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Lipoblastic ,Lipidized ,Benign tumor ,Diagnosis, Differential ,Meningioma ,Meningeal Neoplasms ,otorhinolaryngologic diseases ,medicine ,Humans ,neoplasms ,Right temporal fossa ,business.industry ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,nervous system diseases ,Surgery ,Neurology ,Female ,Surgical excision ,Lipoma ,Neurology (clinical) ,Good prognosis ,Differential diagnosis ,business - Abstract
PubMedID: 14579797 Lipoblastic, lipomatous or lipidized meningioma is an unusual extra-axial benign tumor. It shows benign clinical features and has a good prognosis after surgical excision. We present a 54-year-old woman with intracranial lipidized meningioma in the right temporal fossa, discuss the importance of the differential diagnosis among similar tumors and discuss the term 'Lipidized meningioma' in the light of the literature.
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- 2003
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