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
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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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author Karangelis, Dimos
Palios, John
Tzertzemelis, Dimitrios
Economidou, Stella
Panagiotou, Matthew
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description 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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spelling pubmed-68137092019-10-31 Surgical Resection of a Cardiac Lipoma of the Right Ventricle Karangelis, Dimos Palios, John Tzertzemelis, Dimitrios Economidou, Stella Panagiotou, Matthew Ann Card Anaesth Case Report 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. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6813709/ /pubmed/31621688 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aca.ACA_87_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_short Surgical Resection of a Cardiac Lipoma of the Right Ventricle
title_sort surgical resection of a cardiac lipoma of the right ventricle
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