title: Intracardiac ectopic thyroid (struma cordis).
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Surgery, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Josef
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Besik
authors.forename: Ondrej
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Szarszoi
authors.forename: Anastazie
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bartonova
authors.forename: Ivan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Netuka
authors.forename: Jiri
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Maly
authors.forename: Marian
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Urban
authors.forename: Jozef
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jakabcin
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pirk
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002828:Choristoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D013961:Thyroid Gland; D016896:Treatment Outcome