title: Right-sided invasive metastatic thymoma of the heart.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, room B2-223, Meibergdreef 9, 1105, AZ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, p.m.vanderzee@amc.uva.nl.
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: van der Zee
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: van Schuppen
authors.forename: R B A
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: van de Brink