Surgical Treatment of a Giant Liposarcoma in a Japanese Man

We report a case of a rapidly progressing giant retroperitoneal liposarcoma weighing 22 kg in a 41-year-old Japanese man, successfully treated with surgical excision. To our knowledge, this is the largest liposarcoma in the Japanese population reported in the literature.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Hashimoto, Yasuhiro, Hatakeyama, Shingo, Tachiwada, Tokushi, Yoneyama, Takahiro, Koie, Takuya, Kamimura, Noritaka, Yanagisawa, Takeshi, Hakamada, Kenichi, Ohyama, Chikara
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3010627/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21197426
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/943073
Descripción
Sumario:We report a case of a rapidly progressing giant retroperitoneal liposarcoma weighing 22 kg in a 41-year-old Japanese man, successfully treated with surgical excision. To our knowledge, this is the largest liposarcoma in the Japanese population reported in the literature.

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