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.

Isolated cardiac peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor: A case report

“…Pericardial involvement can lead to effusion and tamponade. 4 Primitive neuroectodermal tumor usually occurs in central and peripheral nervous system or soft tissue and bone, 2 while isolated in the heart is considered as extremely rare. Kath R et al 5 first reported a case of cardiac pPNET, and since then there are no more reports of such cases.…”

Cerebral aneurysms one year after resection of a cardiac myxoma

“…In recent issues of this journal two cases were published [1, 2]. The incidence was reported between 0.0017 and 0.19 % in an unselected population at autopsy [3].…”

Cardiac metastasis of malignant melanoma: a case report

“…The heart is regularly involved in metastatic neoplasms [ 1 – 3 ] with cardiac metastases found in 6–20 % of autopsies [ 4 , 5 ]. Malignant melanoma is responsible for 4.4 % of these cardiac metastases; other causes are lymphoma, sarcoma and leukaemia [ 6 ].…”