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Trans-thoracic echocardiography and cardiac MRI confirmed the diagnosis of a giant pericardial lipoma after a large mass was incidentally detected on a screening CT scan.
Multimodality imaging including echocardiography and cardiac MRI is useful for diagnosing incidental cardiac masses such as giant pericardial lipomas.
Incidental cardiac masses warrant multimodality characterization; extends sparse reports on giant pericardial lipomas without informing management.
We describe a patient with an incidental finding of a large mass adjacent to the heart detected on a screening CT scan. The differential diagnosis included primary and secondary tumours of the heart. Subsequent investigation with trans-thoracic echocardiogram and cardiac MRI confirmed a diagnosis of a giant pericardial lipoma, one of the common benign primary cardiac tumours.
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Salim et al. (2016) studied this question. Trans-thoracic echocardiography and cardiac MRI confirmed the diagnosis of a giant pericardial lipoma after a large mass was incidentally detected on a screening CT scan.
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