Case of the Week # 82

François Jacquemard MD*, Bettina Bessières, MD**, Catherine Fallet, MD**, Luc Gourand, MD*, Fernand Daffos MD*

October 25 - November 7

Institut de Puériculture de Paris:* Service de medecine foetale, **Service de foetopathologie

The following are images obtained from a third trimester fetal head

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The images presented show an echogenic, well-circumscribed mass in direct relation with the corpus callosum and the lateral ventricles.

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Also we noted mild ventriculomegaly

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The first differential diagnosis for this bright echogenic masses should always be intracranial hemorrhage. Indeed, that was the prenatal diagnosis for this baby.

Other differentials for such masses include:

  • Teratoma
  • Craniopharingioma.
  • Primitive neuroectodermal tumors
  • Lipoma of the corpus callosum

Less likely, but also in the differential diagnosis list are:

  • Glioblastoma multiform
  • Medulloblastoma
  • Gliomas of the optic bulbs and of the hypothalamus
  • Metasatasis of choriocarcinoma
  • Astrocytoma
  • Fetus-in-fetu.

Pictures from the pathological brain examination show a yellow mass of the corpus callosum which extends to the lateral ventricles

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Histological exmination show that this mass was composed by fatty tissue, which confirmed the diagnosis of Lipoma of the corpus callosum or pericallosal lipoma.

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