Multimodality imaging, including echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, is useful for characterizing unusual cardiac tumors and guiding management.
Mini‐Abstract A 66‐year‐old male with a medical history of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck with recurrent metastasis and multiple interventions was found to have a lesion in the heart on positron emission tomography scan. Echocardiography showed a thrombuslike 2 × 2 cm mass attached to the right ventricle side of the septum. Contrast‐enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance imaging was obtained to better characterize the mass. It showed a metastatic infiltrative tumor in the septum with a large overlying thrombus protruding into right ventricle. Our case demonstrates the utility of multimodality imaging to characterize an unusual cardiac tumor helping guide management.
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