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Ann Thorac Surg 2000;70:969-970
© 2000 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Case report

Right ventricle lipoma with pseudoaneurysmatic appearance

Omeros Artemiou, MDa, Walter Klepetko, MDa, Helmut Baumgartner, MDb, Herbert Frank, MDb, Michael Grimm, MDa, Ernst Wolner, MDa

a Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
b Department of Cardiology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Address reprint requests to Dr Artemiou, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20A-1190, Vienna, Austria
e-mail: omeros.artemiou{at}univie.ac.at

The case of a 78-year-old female patient, with a large lipoma (13 x 17 x 10 cm) of the right ventricle, appearing pseudoaneurysmatic, is presented. Radical resection left a considerable right ventricle wall and interventricular septum defect which was reconstructed with a bovine pericardium patch.






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