Multicentric myxoid liposarcoma: report of two cases

BACKGROUND: Multicentric myxoid liposarcoma is a rather infrequent tumour that tends to behave aggressively. CASE PRESENTATION: We herein report two further cases of this tumour that have been managed in our Hospital. Both were young men with multiple sites of involvement at the moment of diagnosis...

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Autores principales: Fernández-Aceñero, M Jesus, López-Criado, Pilar, López-Franco, Mariano, Meizoso, Telma, Calvo, Carolina
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2221973/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18070341
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-5-139
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author Fernández-Aceñero, M Jesus
López-Criado, Pilar
López-Franco, Mariano
Meizoso, Telma
Calvo, Carolina
author_facet Fernández-Aceñero, M Jesus
López-Criado, Pilar
López-Franco, Mariano
Meizoso, Telma
Calvo, Carolina
author_sort Fernández-Aceñero, M Jesus
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description BACKGROUND: Multicentric myxoid liposarcoma is a rather infrequent tumour that tends to behave aggressively. CASE PRESENTATION: We herein report two further cases of this tumour that have been managed in our Hospital. Both were young men with multiple sites of involvement at the moment of diagnosis and both have shown a bad prognosis with frequent recurrences after treatment and rapid death in one case. CONCLUSION: We comment on the diagnosis of this entity and on the therapeutic options available for these patients.
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spelling pubmed-22219732008-02-01 Multicentric myxoid liposarcoma: report of two cases Fernández-Aceñero, M Jesus López-Criado, Pilar López-Franco, Mariano Meizoso, Telma Calvo, Carolina World J Surg Oncol Case Report BACKGROUND: Multicentric myxoid liposarcoma is a rather infrequent tumour that tends to behave aggressively. CASE PRESENTATION: We herein report two further cases of this tumour that have been managed in our Hospital. Both were young men with multiple sites of involvement at the moment of diagnosis and both have shown a bad prognosis with frequent recurrences after treatment and rapid death in one case. CONCLUSION: We comment on the diagnosis of this entity and on the therapeutic options available for these patients. BioMed Central 2007-12-10 /pmc/articles/PMC2221973/ /pubmed/18070341 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-5-139 Text en Copyright © 2007 Fernández-Aceñero et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Fernández-Aceñero, M Jesus
López-Criado, Pilar
López-Franco, Mariano
Meizoso, Telma
Calvo, Carolina
Multicentric myxoid liposarcoma: report of two cases
title Multicentric myxoid liposarcoma: report of two cases
title_full Multicentric myxoid liposarcoma: report of two cases
title_fullStr Multicentric myxoid liposarcoma: report of two cases
title_full_unstemmed Multicentric myxoid liposarcoma: report of two cases
title_short Multicentric myxoid liposarcoma: report of two cases
title_sort multicentric myxoid liposarcoma: report of two cases
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2221973/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18070341
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-5-139
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