Obstructive Right Atrial Lipoma

Year 2019, Volume: 5 Issue: 1, 62 - 64, 29.03.2019

Salih Sahinkus

Abstract

Primary
benign cardiac tumors are very rare and only 8.4% of them are cardiac lipomas.
We report a case of a 67-year-old female patient who diagnosed with right
atrial free wall lipoma on echocardiography and tomography. The patient
underwent cardiovascular surgery unit for tumor resection.

Keywords

right atrial free wall lipoma, primary benign cardiac tumors

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