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Review
. 2014 Mar;29(2):155-8.
doi: 10.1111/jocs.12245. Epub 2013 Nov 25.

Intracardiac ectopic thyroid (struma cordis)

Josef Besik  1 , Ondrej Szarszoi, Anastazie Bartonova, Ivan Netuka, Jiri Maly, Marian Urban, Jozef Jakabcin, Jan Pirk
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Review

Intracardiac ectopic thyroid (struma cordis)

Josef Besik et al. J Card Surg. 2014 Mar.

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.

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