title: Cause of chest pain in a patient with previous myocardial infarction: look outside the heart for extracardiac mass.
abstract: We report a case of thymic carcinoma that was initially detected by echocardiography in an 80-year-old male who visited the emergency room for chest pain and had a history of myocardial infarction and percutaneous coronary intervention. Transthoracic echocardiography showed a huge extracardiac mass that was located in the anterior mediastinum and was diagnosed as a thymic carcinoma by biopsy.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Dae In
authors.initials: DI
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Su A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Jun Hyuk
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.forename: Jae Hyoung
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Sang Jung
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Dae Woong
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Yoon
authors.forename: Wan-Joo
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Shim
authors.forename: Seong-Mi
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Park