title: A left ventricular lipoma diagnosed on three-dimensional electrocardiogram-gated cardiac computed tomography.
abstract: Cardiac lipomas are extremely rare primary benign cardiac tumors. We describe a patient with a chief complaint of ventricular tachycardia associated with a lipoma arising in the left ventricular myocardium. The cardiac lipoma was qualitatively evaluated and its location was accurately determined noninvasively with the use of three-dimensional images reconstructed from data acquired by electrocardiogram-gated cardiac computed tomography (CT). Our experience suggests that high-resolution three-dimensional CT imaging may facilitate the determination of strategies for surgical treatment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology and Center for Advanced Medical Technology, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5 Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8603, Japan. hhayashi@nms.ac.jp
authors.forename: Hiromitsu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.forename: Fumitaka
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hidaka
authors.forename: Tomonari
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kiriyama
authors.forename: Hidetaka
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: Ryo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Takagi
authors.forename: Shinichiro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumita
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D008067:Lipoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*