Saturday, January 21, 2012

Pericardial pad of fat


A previous chest X-Ray where done for this patient revealed evidence of a right cardiophrenic angle opacity with well defined borders(not seen in this post).

My differential diagnosis is pericardial pad of fat versus pericardial cyst.

When I did ultrasound for the patient, I saw an area of increased echogenecity of about 4.8x3.7x4.6 cm in diameters anterior to  the heart and above diaphragm, picture suggestive of pericardiac pad of fat.

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