title: Incidental finding of giant pericardial lipoma.
abstract: We describe a patient with an incidental finding of a large mass adjacent to the heart detected on a screening CT scan. The differential diagnosis included primary and secondary tumours of the heart. Subsequent investigation with trans-thoracic echocardiogram and cardiac MRI confirmed a diagnosis of a giant pericardial lipoma, one of the common benign primary cardiac tumours.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, UK.
authors.forename: Handi
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2820-0015
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Salim
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, UK.
authors.forename: Dhakshinamurthy Vijay
authors.initials: DV
authors.lastname: Anand
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton Coldfield, UK.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Watkin
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, UK.
authors.forename: Luke
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tapp
mesh_terms: D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D033162:Incidental Findings; D008067:Lipoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D010496:Pericardium; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed