Surgical Resection of a Cardiac Lipoma of the Right Ventricle

Cardiac lipomas are rare, benign, encapsulated tumors which predominantly appear outside of the heart and less frequently inside the cardiac chambers. We describe a case of a right ventricular cardiac lipoma in a 72-year-old female patient who presented with palpitations. Surgical considerations, di...

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Autores principales: Karangelis, Dimos, Palios, John, Tzertzemelis, Dimitrios, Economidou, Stella, Panagiotou, Matthew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6813709/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31621688
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aca.ACA_87_18
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Sumario:Cardiac lipomas are rare, benign, encapsulated tumors which predominantly appear outside of the heart and less frequently inside the cardiac chambers. We describe a case of a right ventricular cardiac lipoma in a 72-year-old female patient who presented with palpitations. Surgical considerations, diagnostic modalities, and up-to-date literature are also presented and discussed.

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