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Image depicting snake-like hypermobile masses (asterisk) in three chambers of the heart (left atrium, right atrium and left ventricle)
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Two-dimensional echocardiography showed highly mobile, snake-like structures with a slightly higher echodensity as compared to myocardium, in the right and the left atria as well as the left ventricular apical septum (Figure 1).
Macroscopic view of the cardiac masses after surgical extraction was performed
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An open excision of the cardiac masses was performed (Figure 2).
Histopathology of the surgical specimen revealed all three masses to be a cardiac metastasis from an unknown origin of a squamous cell carcinoma
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The histopathology of the surgical specimen revealed each mass to be a cardiac metastasis of a highly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma from an unknown origin (Figure 3).