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Surgical removal of a lipoma of the heart
K Reynen1, J Rein, C Wittekind
1Department of Internal Medicine II, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
International Journal of Cardiology
|June 15, 1993
Abstract:
In a 29-year-old woman echocardiography revealed a tumour originating from the anterior wall of the right ventricle. Noninvasive findings aroused suspicion of a lipoma. The tumour was removed under cardiopulmonary bypass, the resulting defect in the right ventricular wall being covered with a Goretex patch. Histological examination classified the tumour as a rhabdomyolipoma.