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Lipoma, Brain, Mouse

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Nervous System

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Lipomas in the brains of mice are generally small and are unlikely to be observed during gross examination. Only one of 15 lipomas in one series was detected grossly. It formed a small whitish mass in the cerebellar meninges (Morgan et al. 1984).

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  1. Kevin T. Morgan
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  2. Winslow G. Sheldon
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  1. New England Regional Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, One Pine Hill Drive, Southborough, MA, 01772, USA

    Thomas Carlyle Jones D.V.M., D.Sc. (Professor of Comparative Pathology, Emeritus) & Ronald Duncan Hunt D.V.M. (Professor of Comparative Pathology) (Professor of Comparative Pathology, Emeritus) &  (Professor of Comparative Pathology)

  2. Institut für Experimentelle Pathologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Konstanty-Gutschow-Strasse 8, 3000, Hannover 61, Federal Republic of Germany

    Ulrich Mohr M.D. (Professor of Experimental Pathology) (Professor of Experimental Pathology)

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Morgan, K.T., Sheldon, W.G. (1988). Lipoma, Brain, Mouse. In: Jones, T.C., Mohr, U., Hunt, R.D. (eds) Nervous System. Monographs on Pathology of Laboratory Animals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83516-2_23

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