Giant cardiac lipoma: report of a case.
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.
Bardakci
Hasmet
H
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Turkiye Yulsek Ihtisas Hospital, Ankara, Turkey. hasmetbardakci@yahoo.com
Altintas
Garip
G
Unal
Utku
U
Kervan
Umit
U
Arda
Kemal
K
Birincioglu
Levent
L
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