NCJ Number
141756
Journal
Journal of Forensic Sciences Volume: 38 Issue: 2 Dated: (March 1993) Pages: 489-492
Date Published
1993
Length
4 pages
Annotation
A 73-year-old man with no known medical history was admitted to the hospital with vague complaints; he was disoriented and discharged himself before a medical work-up could be performed. The man collapsed several hours later and died.
Abstract
The results of the gross and microscopic examinations of the body, as well as toxicologic studies, were all negative. However, sequential coronal sections through the supratentorial tissues revealed a fatty mass in the left lateral ventricle; this lipoma almost filled the central part of the ventricle, causing its dilation and a shifting of the septum pellucidum to the right. The mass was solid, lobulated, encapsulated, and nonadherent to the walls. Intracranial lipomas are infrequent postmortem findings, present in only 0.08 percent of a random sample of 5,000 consecutive autopsies. 3 figures and 6 references