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:
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Teratoma
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Craniopharingioma.
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Primitive neuroectodermal tumors
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Lipoma of the corpus callosum
Less likely, but also in the differential diagnosis list are:
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Glioblastoma multiform
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Medulloblastoma
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Gliomas of the optic bulbs and of the hypothalamus
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Metasatasis of choriocarcinoma
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Astrocytoma
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Fetus-in-fetu.
Pictures from the pathological brain examination show a yellow mass of the corpus callosum which extends to the lateral ventricles