Cardiac Metastasis from Invasive Thymoma Via the Superior Vena Cava: Cardiac MRI Findings

• Published in: Cardiovascular and interventional radiology Vol. 31; no. Suppl 2; pp. 209 - 212
• Main Authors: Dursun, Memduh, Sarvar, Sadik, Cekrezi, Bledi, Kaba, Erkan, Bakir, Baris, Toker, Alper
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer-Verlag 01.07.2008; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: BLOOD VESSELS; BODY; Cardiology; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; Case Report; Contrast Media; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; DISEASES; Female; Heart Neoplasms - diagnosis; Heart Neoplasms - secondary; Humans; Imaging; Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; METASTASES; Middle Aged; Neoplasm Invasiveness; NEOPLASMS; NMR IMAGING; Nuclear Medicine; ORGANS; Radiology; RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE; Thymoma - diagnosis; Thymoma - secondary; Thymus Neoplasms - pathology; Ultrasound; VEINS; Vena Cava, Superior; Heart; Invasive thymoma; Metastasis; Magnetic resonance imaging
• ISSN: 0174-1551; 1432-086X; 1432-086X
• DOI: 10.1007/s00270-007-9146-y

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.