Presentation
Left-sided chest pain
Patient Data
Note: This case has been tagged as "legacy" as it no longer meets image preparation and/or other case publication guidelines.
Axial CT images demonstrate a left juxtacardiac encapsulated fatty lesion with soft tissue rim and intrinsic and surrounding soft tissue stranding.
Note the focal thickening of the adjacent pericardium.
Coronal reformatting image shows the encapsulated fatty lesion with intrinsic and surrounding tissue strands adjacent to the left epicardiac fat pad.
Case Discussion
Findings are compatible with epipericardial fat necrosis.
The other considerations include: pericardial/epicardial lipoma or liposarcoma.
This case is courtesy of Dr Mohamed Alshaikh who generously shared this with me.