Cardiac lipoma

• Main Authors: Imtiaz Ismail (Author), Khalid Al-Khafaji (Author), Monica Mutyala (Author), Saurabh Aggarwal (Author), William Cotter (Author), Hosam Hakim (Author), Sandeep Khosla (Author), Rohit Arora (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Greater Baltimore Medical Center, 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Lipomas of the heart are encapsulated tumors that are composed primarily of mature fat cells. Cardiac lipomas can originate either from subendocardium (approximately 50%), subpericardium (25%), or from the myocardium (25%) and may be located more frequently in left ventricle or right atrium. We repo...