Right-sided invasive metastatic thymoma of the heart

作者：van der Zee P M^*; van Schuppen J; van de Brink R B A

来源：Netherlands Heart Journal, 2011, 19(9): 392-394.

DOI：10.1007/s12471-011-0114-4

• Cardiac tumor
• Echocardiography
• Cardiac CT
• Thymoma
• Cardiac imaging

Cardiac tumours may display diverse symptoms through potential involvement of any structure of the heart. We describe a case of a highly malignant thymoma with involvement of different cardiac structures with important haemodynamic compromise. With the high sensitivity of transthoracic echocardiography for detection of intracardiac masses, computed tomography and magnetic resonance add essential structural preoperative information on the tumour and surrounding tissue as vessels, pleura, lung and mediastinum.

• 出版日期2011-9