Tomojiro Yamane, Ichiro Miyagawa, Akira Dezawa, Hiroto Mikami and Yukihiro Arai
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

We experienced a 51 year-old female with high cervical lipoma who complained of neck pain and hypoaesthesia on her right lower extremity. She underwent surgery for removal of the tumour, but she was found unconscious after the surgery and then died after 19 days.

Key words: high cervical lipoma; spinal dysraphism; spina bifida occulta; spinal tumor; cervical spine