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Simultaneous surgical removal of a large subepicardial lipoma and a chronic left lung abscess was successfully performed using video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in a 42-year-old patient.
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Simultaneous video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery is a feasible approach for the concurrent removal of a subepicardial lipoma and a chronic lung abscess.
This study examined a rarely seen benign heart tumor that was found incidentally on a chest X-ray. Radiological images were taken of a 42-year-old patient with no symptoms of a heart condition, showing a thick-walled left lung cavity that appeared after prior inflammation and concomitant enlargement of the cardiac shadow. A large subepicardial lipoma in combination with a chronic abscess on the left lung was revealed on chest computed tomography. The treatment consisted of simultaneous surgical removal of both the lung and heart lesions using video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.
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Kryvetskyi et al. (2021) conducted a case report in Cardiac lipoma and chronic lung abscess (n=1). Simultaneous surgical removal using video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) was evaluated. Simultaneous surgical removal of a large subepicardial lipoma and a chronic left lung abscess was successfully performed using video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in a 42-year-old patient.
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