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- Title
Right ventricular lipoma.
- Authors
Erdoğan, İlkay; Alehan, Dursun; Hazırolan, Tuncay; Haliloğlu, Mithat
- Abstract
The article offers information on the cardiac lipoma case. A 11-year-old male noted to have a heart murmur during his routine physical examination. His transthoracic echocardiogram showed a mass in the interventricular septum towards the right ventricular outflow tract. It reports that the said mass was being diagnosed as cardiac lipoma without using any invasive technique. Moreover, it mentions that cardiac lipomas are rare benign tumors of encapsulated mature adipose cells.
- Subjects
HEART murmurs; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART septum; RIGHT heart ventricle; FAT cells; ADIPOSE tissue tumors; CANCER
- Publication
Anatolian Journal of Cardiology / Anadolu Kardiyoloji Dergisi, 2008, Vol 8, Issue 4, pE25
- ISSN
2149-2263
- Publication type
Article