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A case of intracranial lipoma located in the interpeduncular fossa of a young woman is presented. Since the patient suffers only nonspecific headache, no treatment was performed. To our knowledge this is the only which was demonstrated by magnetic resonance images (MRI) in the English language literature.
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Beşkonakh, E., Çayh, S.R., Ergün, R. et al. Lipoma of the interpeduncular fossa: Demonstration by CT and MRI. Neurosurg. Rev. 21, 210–212 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02389336
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