title: Right atrial lipoma resection and partial reconstruction using bovine pericardium.
abstract: The primary heart tumors have an incidence varying from 0.001% to 0.28% of all tumors, reported in necropsies series. Lipoma consists of a benign tumour corresponding to about 8% of all primary heart tumors. When present, the symptoms are related to the size and location of such tumor. We report a case of a 27-year-old man with a lipoma in the right atrium who underwent surgical treatment with tumor resection and partial reconstruction of the right atrium using bovine pericardium.
authors.affiliation: Hospital dos Fornecedores de Cana, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil. mrjoaquim@sbccv.org.br
authors.forename: Marcos Rogério
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Joaquim
authors.forename: Domingo Marcolino
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Braile
authors.forename: Marcus Vinícius Ferraz de
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Arruda
authors.forename: Marcelo José Ferreira
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Soares
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000601:surgery; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008067:Lipoma / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D010496:Pericardium / Q000637:transplantation*