An Anatomic Curiosity: A Sliver of a Liver in an Unusual Location

Anika Vaidy; Ahmed Sadek; Pravin Patil; William Van Decker; Maruti Kumaran; John Holten; Michael Isaac-Walshon; Alisa Nobee; Israh Akhtar; Michael P Gannon

doi:10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.08.016

An Anatomic Curiosity: A Sliver of a Liver in an Unusual Location

JACC Case Rep. 2021 Oct 6;3(13):1541-1544. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.08.016.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Disease, Temple University Hospital, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
² Department of Radiology, Temple University Hospital, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
³ Department of Pathology, Temple University Hospital, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Abstract

A 48-year-old woman underwent preoperative cardiac testing prior to gastric bypass. She was incidentally found to have a right atrial mass on transthoracic echocardiography. Subsequent cardiac magnetic resonance confirmed this finding. She underwent excision of the mass. Tissue pathology revealed ectopic hepatic tissue. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.).

Keywords: 3-dimensional imaging; CMR, cardiac magnetic resonance; TEE, transesophageal echocardiography; TTE, transthoracic echocardiography; cardiac magnetic resonance; echocardiography; imaging.

Publication types

Case Reports