title: Cardiac lipoma originating from the left ventricular apex diagnosed using the magnetic resonance imaging fat suppression technique: report of a case.
abstract: A 70-year-old male patient had a tumor in the left ventricular apex that was detected by transthoracic echocardiography. He had no clinical manifestations. A diagnosis of benign lipoma was made using the noninvasive fat suppression technique of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Video-assisted surgery was performed to resect the tumor, and the histopathological examination confirmed the diagnosis of lipoma. A small part of the tumor was not resected. The postoperative course was uneventful. No signs of recurrence were detected on transthoracic echocardiography or MRI during a 22-month post surgical follow-up period.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University Medical Center East, 2-1-10 Nishiogu, Arakawa-ku, Tokyo 116-8567, Japan.
authors.forename: Satoru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Domoto
authors.forename: Kiyoharu
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakano
authors.forename: Kojiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kodera
authors.forename: Akihito
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sasaki
authors.forename: Ryota
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Asano
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ikeda
authors.forename: Go
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kataoka
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004452:Echocardiography; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D008067:Lipoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D020535:Video-Assisted Surgery