title: Giant cardiac lipoma in the ventricular septum involving the tricuspid valve.
abstract: We report a case with a primary giant cardiac lipoma in the right ventricle attached to the interventricular septum that involved the chordae of the septal leaflet of the tricuspid valve. As the potential for malignancy was low, tricuspid valve replacement and minimum tumor resection were performed to obtain a suitable route to the right ventricular outflow tract.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan.
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nishi
authors.forename: Masataka
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mitsuno
authors.forename: Masaaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ryomoto
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hao
authors.forename: Seiichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hirota
authors.forename: Yuji
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Miyamoto
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008067:Lipoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014261:Tricuspid Valve; D054088:Ventricular Septum; D015646:Ventriculography, First-Pass