title: Giant cardiac lipoma: report of a case.
abstract: Cardiac lipomas are extremely rare benign tumors. We report a case of a 41-year-old man who was admitted because of cardiomegaly and a feeling of discomfort in his chest. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging studies showed a large mass occupying the mediastinum and pericardial space. The patient underwent resection of a lipoma which weighed 1100 g and had a pedicle 6 cm in diameter, connected to the epicardial surface of right ventricle infundibulum.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Turkiye Yulsek Ihtisas Hospital, Ankara, Turkey. hasmetbardakci@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Hasmet
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bardakci
authors.forename: Garip
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Altintas
authors.forename: Utku
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Unal
authors.forename: Umit
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Kervan
authors.forename: Kemal
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Arda
authors.forename: Levent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Birincioglu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008067:Lipoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed