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Lipomatous hypertrophy of the atrial septum – a benign heart anomaly causing unexpected surgical problems: a case report

BACKGROUND: Lipomatous hypertrophy of the atrial septum (LHAS) is an anomaly of the heart. It is characterized by an infiltration of adipocytes into myocytes of the interatrial septum, sparing the fossa ovalis, which gives a characteristic hourglass-shaped image. Due to the progress in imaging techn...

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Autores principales: Bielicki, Grzegorz, Lukaszewski, Marceli, Kosiorowska, Kinga, Jakubaszko, Jacek, Nowicki, Rafal, Jasinski, Marek
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6064128/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30055568
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12872-018-0892-3