Cardiac metastasis from invasive thymoma via the superior vena cava: cardiac MRI findings

Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. 2008 Jul:31 Suppl 2:S209-12. doi: 10.1007/s00270-007-9146-y. Epub 2007 Aug 21.

Abstract

Cardiac tumors are rare, and metastatic deposits are more common than primary cardiac tumors. We present cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings of a 50-year-old woman with invasive thymoma. Cardiac MRI revealed a heterogeneous, lobulated anterior mediastinal mass invading the superior vena cava and extending to the right atrium. In cine images there was no invasion to the right atrial wall.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Contrast Media
  • Female
  • Heart Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Heart Neoplasms / secondary
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine*
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasm Invasiveness
  • Thymoma / diagnosis*
  • Thymoma / secondary
  • Thymus Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Vena Cava, Superior*

Substances

  • Contrast Media