Japanese Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery Vol49,No.5
Kiyotaka Suzuki* | Hiroshi Tsuneyoshi* | Takehide Akimoto* |
Chikara Ueki* | Ken Yamanaka* | Masahiro Hirano* |
Yuta Kitagata* |
(Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Shizuoka General Hospital*, Shizuoka, Japan)
We herein report a case of cardiac tumor resection through a right mini-thoracotomy. A 48-year-old man exhibited no symptoms. A mass was detected incidentally in the right atrium on computed tomography. We performed resection under cardiopulmonary bypass through a right mini-thoracotomy. Histopathological examination confirmed that this tumor was a lipoma. The patient’s postoperative recovery was uneventful. He was discharged on postoperative day 6. As cardiac tumor resection through right mini-thoracotomy is minimally invasive, this approach may be useful for surgery in cases of benign cardiac tumors.
Jpn. J. Cardiovasc. Surg. 49:267-270(2020)
Keywords:right mini-thoracotomy;cardiac tumor;lipoma
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