The importance of multimodality cardiac imaging: Echocardiography and cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging contributions to the diagnosis and management of a right ventricular mass

AbstractCardiac metastases from testicular tumors are rare. We report a case of a 42-year-old man with a cardiac mass incidentally found in a computed tomography-scan included in the workup for lumbago and a suspicious neoformation in the right testicle. Transthoracic echocardiography showed a large multilobular ill-defined mass infiltrating the right ventricle free wall, protruding to, and partially obstructing the right ventricular outflow tract resulting in considerable outflow obstruction. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging favored a malignant nature, which was confirmed by marked regression of the tumor mass with chemotherapy and anatomopathologic study