Abstract
A lipoma, essentially occupying the superior vermis and related to a branch of the left superior cerebellar artery, was an incidental finding at autopsy of a 75 year old woman who died of renal failure. Localisation of a lipoma to the superior vermis seems to be rare. Besides fatty tissue there were cartilaginous components. Malformation of the convolutional pattern in the immediate vicinity of the tumour suggests its origin from a “false mixture of tissue” (hamartoma) in the anlage of the cerebellum.
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Schmid, A.H. A lipoma of the cerebellum. Acta Neuropathol 26, 75–80 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00685525
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