Pericardial fat necrosis.
Pericardial fat necrosis has a highly characteristic clinical picture that enables a preoperative diagnosis to be made on clinical grounds. Surgical therapy, which remains the treatment of choice for this curable entity, confirms the diagnosis. This report reviews the literature and adds a thirteenth documented case to the previously reported 12 cases.
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Department of Surgery, St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center, Youngstown, OH 44501.
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D000328:Adult; D005218:Fat Necrosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010496:Pericardium / Q000473:pathology*