title: [Rhabdomyolipoma of the right ventricle].
abstract: Echocardiography on a 29-year-old woman with exercise-unrelated tightness in the left chest for some months demonstrated an echo-dense space-occupying lesion in the outflow tract of the right ventricle (RV). Nuclear magnetic imaging revealed an ovular, fat-containing tumour, 3 x 2 x 2 cm in size. Because of threatened obstruction of the RV outflow tract removal of the tumour under cardiopulmonary bypass was undertaken. But complete removal was possible only by resecting a 2 x 3 cm area of the anterior wall of the RV, the resulting defect being covered with a Goretex patch. Histological examination identified the tumour as a rhabdomyolipoma. The patient was free of symptoms 1 year postoperatively.
authors.affiliation: Medizinische Klinik II mit Poliklinik, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Reynen
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wittekind
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rein
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Friedrich
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bachmann
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004452:Echocardiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008067:Lipoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D012207:Rhabdomyoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery
vernacular_title: Rhabdomyolipom des rechten Ventrikels.