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Cardiac lipomas are extremely rare primary benign cardiac tumors. We describe a patient with a chief complaint of ventricular tachycardia associated with a lipoma arising in the left ventricular myocardium. The cardiac lipoma was qualitatively evaluated and its location was accurately determined noninvasively with the use of three-dimensional images reconstructed from data acquired by electrocardiogram-gated cardiac computed tomography (CT). Our experience suggests that high-resolution three-dimensional CT imaging may facilitate the determination of strategies for surgical treatment.
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Hayashi, H., Hidaka, F., Kiriyama, T. et al. A left ventricular lipoma diagnosed on three-dimensional electrocardiogram-gated cardiac computed tomography. Heart Vessels 23, 366–369 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00380-007-1037-2
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