© 2014, Wiley Periodicals, Inc. DOI: 10.1111/echo.12741
Echocardiography
Right Ventricular Mass: Intracardiac Ectopic Thyroid Tissue: A Case Report Murat Bulent Rabus, M.D.,* Nertila Pocßi, M.D.,† Fatih Yılmaz, M.D.,† Onur Yerlikhan, M.D.,* Tugba Aktemur, M.D.,† Akin Arslan, M.D.,* Selcuk Ozturk, M.D.,† Ibrahim Oztek, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.A.C.,‡ and Mehmet Balkanay, M.D.* *Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kartal Kosuyolu Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey; †Department of Cardiology, Kartal Kosuyolu Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey; and ‡Department of Pathology, Molecular Pathology Laboratory, Istanbul, Turkey
Ectopic thyroid tissue is a result of abnormal migration of thyroid tissue during the embryonic state. Most of these rare cases, almost 90% of them, are located in the base of the tongue and a minority of them is located anteriorly near the hyoid bone area. Below we report the case of a young patient with an intracardiac mass first diagnosed with three-dimensional echocardiography and afterward successfully treated surgically. Once a careful histological examination has revealed a follicular adenoma, the prognosis is good especially if successful surgical excision is part of the management. (Echocardiography 2015;32:178–180) Key words: three-dimensional echocardiography, intracardiac, thyroid
Case Report: A 37-year-old male patient was admitted to our hospital with a 2-month history of atypical chest pain and exertional dyspnea in NYHA class II. He had no history of any chronic disease. Physical examination was unremarkable. ECG showed sinus rhythm with right bundle branch block. Chest x-ray showed normal heart silhouette (CTI
Echocardiography
Right Ventricular Mass: Intracardiac Ectopic Thyroid Tissue: A Case Report Murat Bulent Rabus, M.D.,* Nertila Pocßi, M.D.,† Fatih Yılmaz, M.D.,† Onur Yerlikhan, M.D.,* Tugba Aktemur, M.D.,† Akin Arslan, M.D.,* Selcuk Ozturk, M.D.,† Ibrahim Oztek, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.A.C.,‡ and Mehmet Balkanay, M.D.* *Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kartal Kosuyolu Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey; †Department of Cardiology, Kartal Kosuyolu Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey; and ‡Department of Pathology, Molecular Pathology Laboratory, Istanbul, Turkey
Ectopic thyroid tissue is a result of abnormal migration of thyroid tissue during the embryonic state. Most of these rare cases, almost 90% of them, are located in the base of the tongue and a minority of them is located anteriorly near the hyoid bone area. Below we report the case of a young patient with an intracardiac mass first diagnosed with three-dimensional echocardiography and afterward successfully treated surgically. Once a careful histological examination has revealed a follicular adenoma, the prognosis is good especially if successful surgical excision is part of the management. (Echocardiography 2015;32:178–180) Key words: three-dimensional echocardiography, intracardiac, thyroid
Case Report: A 37-year-old male patient was admitted to our hospital with a 2-month history of atypical chest pain and exertional dyspnea in NYHA class II. He had no history of any chronic disease. Physical examination was unremarkable. ECG showed sinus rhythm with right bundle branch block. Chest x-ray showed normal heart silhouette (CTI
