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Asymptomatic Cardiac Lipoma as a Finding In a Left Thoracotomy for Lung Cancer

Department of Thoracic Surgery, 401 General Military Hospital
¹ Second Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Chest Diseases Hospital, Athens, Greece

For reprint information contact: Christophoros S. Kotoulas, MD Tel & Fax: 30 210 608 1367 Email: chrkotoulas@hol.gr 70c Bakoyanni str, Vrilissia, GR-152 35 Athens, Greece.

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We present the case of a 70-year-old male with coexistence of a squamous-cell lung cancer and an asymptomatic lipoma of the cardiac wall.

Computed tomography of the chest showed an atelectasis of the left lower lobe due to a central space-occupying lesion, also a small retrosternal goiter, and without pathologic findings from the . . . [Full Text of this Article]