Giant cardiac lipoma: report of a case

J Card Surg. 2008 May-Jun;23(3):254-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2007.00519.x.

Abstract

Cardiac lipomas are extremely rare benign tumors. We report a case of a 41-year-old man who was admitted because of cardiomegaly and a feeling of discomfort in his chest. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging studies showed a large mass occupying the mediastinum and pericardial space. The patient underwent resection of a lipoma which weighed 1100 g and had a pedicle 6 cm in diameter, connected to the epicardial surface of right ventricle infundibulum.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Echocardiography, Transesophageal
  • Heart Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Heart Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Humans
  • Lipoma / diagnosis
  • Lipoma / surgery*
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed