Discussion
Diagnosis With Brief Discussion
- Chief Complaint
- Chest pain (onset: 4DA)
- Reviewy
- Self-limited inflammatory process occurring the epipericardial fat, which is the tissue that connects the pericardial layer to the anterior thoracic wall
Encapsulated fat necrosis, similar to other analogous conditions such as epiploic appendagitis and fat necrosis in the omentum or breast
CT finding
- a lesion of fat attenuation surrounded by the increased attenuation of the anterior mediastinal epipericardial fat adjacent to the pericardium
- with or without concomitant pleural effusion
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