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A CASE OF MULTIPLE CARDIAC LIPOMAS

SELVAKUMARAN M S SANKARAPANDIAN

Abstract


Primary tumors of the heart are rare.
They are not easy to diagnose clinically
and differ in regard to clinical manifestations,
size, morphology, location, and radiological
findings. Of the primary cardiac
tumors, benign lipomas are second most
common primary neoplasm of heart in
adults next to myxomas. Lipomas account
for 10 of all cardiac neoplasms and
accounts for 14 of benign cardiac tumors
and are often asymptomatic but may produce
symptoms due to obstruction. Here
we report a case of an asymptomatic female
who was incidentally found to have
mass lesion in the right atrium which was
subsequently operated and was found to
be lipoma in histopathological analysis.


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