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Intracardiac Ectopic Thyroid (Struma Cordis)

Publication at First Faculty of Medicine |
2014

Abstract

A 67-year-old male with a history of gastrointestinal malignancy was found to have a tumor in the right ventricular outflow tract. The tumor was surgically removed, and the histological diagnosis was thyroid struma.

We review the literature on this rare cardiac tumor.