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European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access originally published online on June 2, 2009
European Journal of Echocardiography 2009 10(5):704-706; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jep061
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2009. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

An intracardiac ectopic thyroid mass

Silvia Masmitjà Comajuan1, Jorge López Ayerbe1,*, Bernat Romero Ferrer2, Cristina Quer1, Nuria Vallejo Camazón1, Elena Ferrer Sistach1, Francisco Gual Capllonch1, Xavier Ruyra Baliarda2 and Vicente Valle Tudela1

1 Department of Cardiology, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain
2 Department of Cardiac Surgery, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain

Received 18 December 2008; accepted after revision 3 May 2009; online publish-ahead-of-print 2 June 2009.

* Corresponding author. Tel: +34 934978915; fax: +34 934978939. E-mail address: jlopezayerbe{at}hotmail.com


  Abstract

Ectopic thyroid tissue is a rare congenital anomaly that results from multiple events during development. The ectopic thyroid may lie in several human organs including the tongue and mediastinum. It is rarely seen as an intracardiac mass. We report the case of a patient with an intracardiac mass diagnosed by echocardiography. The pathology of the mass was compatible with ectopic thyroid tissue with no signs of malignancy.

Keywords: Ectopic thyroid tissue; Intracardiac mass


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