Case Report: Floating fat globule within an arachnoid cyst
Intralesional floating fat globules have been reported in cystic lesions such as teratoma of the ovary and dermoid of the head and neck but not within intracranial lesions. Fat globules dispersed within the subarachnoid space are a known imaging finding of ruptured intracranial dermoid. We report a...
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| author | Jayanand Sudhir Chittur Viswanathan Gopalakrishnan Sathia Prabhu Swati Chinchure |
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| description | Intralesional floating fat globules have been reported in cystic lesions such as teratoma of the ovary and dermoid of the head and neck but not within intracranial lesions. Fat globules dispersed within the subarachnoid space are a known imaging finding of ruptured intracranial dermoid. We report a unique case of an intralesional solitary floating fat globule within a multicompartmental arachnoid cyst, with varying locations on serial imaging. We also put forward a hypothesis for the pathogenesis of fat within an arachnoid cyst. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such report in the literature. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d15fd405eb324b65ba10e9a2b64317aa2022-12-21T22:08:13ZengThieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd.Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging0971-30261998-38082011-07-01210322823010.4103/0971-3026.85374Case Report: Floating fat globule within an arachnoid cystJayanand Sudhir0Chittur Viswanathan Gopalakrishnan1Sathia Prabhu2Swati Chinchure3Department of Neurosurgery, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, IndiaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, IndiaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, IndiaDepartment of Radiology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, IndiaIntralesional floating fat globules have been reported in cystic lesions such as teratoma of the ovary and dermoid of the head and neck but not within intracranial lesions. Fat globules dispersed within the subarachnoid space are a known imaging finding of ruptured intracranial dermoid. We report a unique case of an intralesional solitary floating fat globule within a multicompartmental arachnoid cyst, with varying locations on serial imaging. We also put forward a hypothesis for the pathogenesis of fat within an arachnoid cyst. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such report in the literature.http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/0971-3026.85374arachnoid cystintralesional fatmagnetic resonance imaging |
| spellingShingle | Jayanand Sudhir Chittur Viswanathan Gopalakrishnan Sathia Prabhu Swati Chinchure Case Report: Floating fat globule within an arachnoid cyst Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging arachnoid cyst intralesional fat magnetic resonance imaging |
| title | Case Report: Floating fat globule within an arachnoid cyst |
| title_full | Case Report: Floating fat globule within an arachnoid cyst |
| title_fullStr | Case Report: Floating fat globule within an arachnoid cyst |
| title_full_unstemmed | Case Report: Floating fat globule within an arachnoid cyst |
| title_short | Case Report: Floating fat globule within an arachnoid cyst |
| title_sort | case report floating fat globule within an arachnoid cyst |
| topic | arachnoid cyst intralesional fat magnetic resonance imaging |
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