Case Reports in Cardiology (Jan 2019)

A Rare Case of an Ectopic Liver Presenting as Right Atrial Mass

  • Adhirath Doshi,
  • Dhaval Shah,
  • Shradha Gupta,
  • Deepika Panday,
  • Arie Farji-Cisneros,
  • Eddison Ramsaran,
  • Robert Bojar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/4103827
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2019

Abstract

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Ectopic liver tissue is commonly observed in the abdominal cavity in adjacent organs. Extension of hepatic tissue into the intrathoracic cavity is rarely reported. We present the case of a 46-year-old woman with a 2.1×1.8 cm mass confirmed by transesophageal echocardiogram to be at the right atrial and inferior vena cava junction that was initially thought to be a myxoma which prompted surgical excision but subsequently identified as ectopic liver by histology.