This report describes a 75-year-old woman with an asymptomatic pedunculated lipoma involving the epicardium of the right atrium. The lipoma was an incidental finding at autopsy. The twisted lesion showed many similarities with the infarcted epiploic appendages observed in the visceral peritoneum.
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