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Benign hibernoma mimicking a cardiac liposarcoma.

Kody WyantTitilayo Oden ShobayoManuel R RojoZaid M AbdelsattarMenhel KinnoJeffrey Schwartz
Published in: Journal of surgical case reports (2024)
Despite the low incidence of primary cardiac tumors, recently at our institution, we have experienced two very rare tumors in the span of just a few months. Hibernomas are rare tumors of brown adipose tissue origin that share the benign clinical features of a lipoma, but on imaging mimic the more aggressive sarcoma. Here we present two separate cases of otherwise healthy patients who were found incidentally to have these asymptomatic tumors.
Keyphrases
  • adipose tissue
  • left ventricular
  • risk factors
  • insulin resistance
  • heart failure
  • type diabetes
  • metabolic syndrome