Ectopic Thyroid Tissue in the Ventricular Outflow Tract: Embryologic Implications

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The case of a 66-year-old female patient with a tumor located in the right ventricular outflow tract is reported. Histologic examination of an intraoperative biopsy revealed that the tumor was an intracardiac ectopic thyroid. We performed conservative surgery with partial resection of the mass. After 5 years, the patient is asymptomatic and leading a normal life. The authors examine the relation between the embryologic development of the primitive heart and the thyroid primordium and suggest the hypothesis of ectopic thyroid location in the right- or left-ventricular outflow tract.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): CRD

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Cardiology

Journal ID (doi): 10.1159/issn.0008-6312

Title: Cardiology

Publisher: S. Karger AG

ISSN (Print): 0008-6312

ISSN (Electronic): 1421-9751

Publication date Subscription-year: 1995

Publication date (Print): 1995

Publication date (Electronic): 19 November 2008

Volume: 86

Issue: 6

Pages: 524-526

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^aDepartment of Cardiac Surgery University of Milan, Centro Cardiologico I. Monzino Foundation – IRCCS, and ^bIstituto Scientifico H S. Raffaele -Fondazione Centro S. Romanello del Monte Tabor, Servizio di Medicina Nucleare, Milan, Italy

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Publisher ID: 176934 Other ID: Cardiology 1995;86:524–526

DOI: 10.1159/000176934

PubMed ID: 7585766

SO-VID: 5d5cf558-801d-4997-8d3d-64401b3833bd

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Date received : 07 February 1995

Date accepted : 21 February 1995

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