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Case Reports

Giant Cardiac Lipoma in the Ventricular Septum Involving the Tricuspid Valve

^a Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan
^b Department of Pathology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan

Accepted for publication February 17, 2009.

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Miyamoto, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hyogo College of Medicine, 1-1 Mukogawa-cho, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, 661-8501, Japan (Email: y-miyamo{at}hyo-med.ac.jp).

We report a case with a primary giant cardiac lipoma in the right ventricle attached to the interventricular septum that involved the chordae of the septal leaflet of the tricuspid valve. As the potential for malignancy was low, tricuspid valve replacement and minimum tumor resection were performed to obtain a suitable route to the right ventricular outflow tract.