Intravestibular lipoma

Intravestibular lipomas are rare congenital fatty masses located in the vestibule of the inner ear.

Clinical presentation

Patients usually present with sensorineural hearing loss.

Pathology

Their pathogenesis is thought to be the same as that of other intracranial lipomas.

Associations

Differential diagnosis

The high signal on T1 weighted sequences lends itself to the differential diagnosis of:

See also
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