Polypoid (pedunculated) subepicardial lipoma: a cardiac lesion resembling the epiploic appendage.
This report describes a 75-year-old woman with an asymptomatic pedunculated lipoma involving the epicardium of the right atrium. The lipoma was an incidental finding at autopsy. The twisted lesion showed many similarities with the infarcted epiploic appendages observed in the visceral peritoneum.
Val-Bernal
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Anatomical Pathology Department, Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital, Medical Faculty, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain. apavbj@humv.es
Villoria
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Fernández
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D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000473:pathology; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007238:Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D008067:Lipoma / Q000473:pathology*; D009852:Omentum / Q000098:blood supply / Q000473:pathology; D010496:Pericardium / Q000473:pathology*