title: Right ventricular mass: intracardiac ectopic thyroid tissue: a case report.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kartal Kosuyolu Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Murat Bulent
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Rabus
authors.forename: Nertila
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Poçi
authors.forename: Fatih
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yılmaz
authors.forename: Onur
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Yerlikhan
authors.forename: Tugba
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Aktemur
authors.forename: Akin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Arslan
authors.forename: Selcuk
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ozturk
authors.forename: Ibrahim
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Oztek
authors.forename: Mehmet
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Balkanay
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002828:Choristoma / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013961:Thyroid Gland; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014463:Ultrasonography; D018497:Ventricular Dysfunction, Right / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery
keywords: intracardiac; three-dimensional echocardiography; thyroid