Thymolipoma simulating cardiomegaly.
A thymolipoma in an 8-year-old boy is reported. The tumour had appeared on a routine chest X-ray as a broadened heart shadow and a peculiar right heart contour. Cardiac hypertrophy was suspected primarily. At thoracotomy a thymic tumour was found.
D006332:Cardiomegaly / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008067:Lipoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D013950:Thymus Gland / Q000473:pathology; D013953:Thymus Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology