Koshy Anoop N, Koshy George, Hardikar Ashutosh A
Department of Cardiology, Launceston General Hospital, Tasmania, Australia.
J Card Surg. 2011 Jan;26(1):65-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2010.01156.x. Epub 2010 Nov 14.
Cardiac lipoma is the commonest nonmyxomatous benign primary cardiac tumor. We report a case of lipoma arising from the anterolateral papillary muscle and presenting with a transient ischemic episode and a history of malignant melanoma. The lipoma was removed leaving the mitral apparatus intact.