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Giant cardiac lipoma: report of a case
Hasmet Bardakci1, Garip Altintas, Utku Unal
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Turkiye Yulsek Ihtisas Hospital, Ankara, Turkey. hasmetbardakci@yahoo.com
Journal of Cardiac Surgery
|April 26, 2008
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.