대한흉부영상의학회 Korean Society of Thoracic Radiology

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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