This patient had the lesion resected by a transcallosal approach:

MACROSCOPIC DESCRIPTION: 1. "Colloid cyst": A strip of soft white tissue 12x1x1mm. A1. 2. "Colloid cyst": A strip of soft white tissue 8x1x1mm. A1.

MICROSCOPIC DESCRIPTION: 1,2. The sections show a cyst, which is lined by a layer of cuboidal to columnar epithelium. Some goblet cells are noted. The wall is fibrous. No evidence of malignancy is seen. The features are those of a colloid cyst. 

DIAGNOSIS: 1,2. Brain biopsy: Colloid cyst.

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