Growing Fat Tissue After Grafting for Dural Sealing

Basil Erwin Grüter; Lukas Andereggen

doi:10.1016/j.wneu.2022.11.082

Growing Fat Tissue After Grafting for Dural Sealing

World Neurosurg. 2023 Feb:170:236-237. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2022.11.082. Epub 2022 Nov 24.

Authors

Basil Erwin Grüter¹, Lukas Andereggen²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurosurgery, Kantonsspital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland; Institute of Neuroradiology, Kantonsspital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland.
² Department of Neurosurgery, Kantonsspital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland; Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. Electronic address: lukas.andereggen@ksa.com.

PMID: 36436776
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2022.11.082

Abstract

We report on a young patient with a growing retroauricular benign fat tissue tumor after juvenile fat grafting for dural sealing of a placed ventriculoperitoneal shunt. The clinical images indicate fat tissue rather than a cerebrospinal fluid leak due to potential shunt malfunction suspected on plain radiography. Human adipose tissue is a source of stem cells that can replicate rather than undergoing necrosis, in particular when transplanted during development.

Keywords: CSF leak; Fat tissue; Grafting; Imaging.

MeSH terms

Adipose Tissue / transplantation
Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak*
Humans
Radiography
Transplants*