Open AccessA composite right atrial colossus excision with atrial reconstruction via thoracotomy—an alternative approach
Author(s) -
Sivaprasad Veerbhadran,
Ratish Radhakrishnan,
Deepa Sujatha,
Jayakumar Thanathu Krishnan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery/indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 0973-7723
pISSN - 0970-9134
DOI - 10.1007/s12055-019-00795-1
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiothoracic surgery , thoracotomy , cardiac surgery , surgery , right atrium , vascular surgery , lipoma , right atrial myxoma , colossus computer , algorithm , computer science
Cardiac lipoma of right atrium is rare. Early surgery is the treatment of choice. We describe a case of giant right atrial wall lipoma, which was resected through mini thoracotomy and its results.