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Embryonal Sarcoma of the Liver in an Adult Patient

Undifferentiated embryonal sarcomas (UESs) are uncommon tumours that are seen predominantly in late childhood. Cases in adults are rare and generally present once a large mass develops and may be mistaken for other tumours. A case of an UES of the liver with an isolated peritoneal metastasis is desc...

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Autores principales: Lightfoot, Nicole, Nikfarjam, Mehrdad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3368299/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22690347
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/382723
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description Undifferentiated embryonal sarcomas (UESs) are uncommon tumours that are seen predominantly in late childhood. Cases in adults are rare and generally present once a large mass develops and may be mistaken for other tumours. A case of an UES of the liver with an isolated peritoneal metastasis is described. The patient presented with a palpable mass with imaging findings suggestive of a cystic tumour. She had complete surgical resection of the liver mass and isolated peritoneal metastasis. She was tumour-free on imaging at 6 months without adjuvant chemotherapy. An UES should be considered in the differential of large cystic hepatic lesions, with aggressive surgical resection considered when possible.
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spelling pubmed-33682992012-06-11 Embryonal Sarcoma of the Liver in an Adult Patient Lightfoot, Nicole Nikfarjam, Mehrdad Case Rep Surg Case Report Undifferentiated embryonal sarcomas (UESs) are uncommon tumours that are seen predominantly in late childhood. Cases in adults are rare and generally present once a large mass develops and may be mistaken for other tumours. A case of an UES of the liver with an isolated peritoneal metastasis is described. The patient presented with a palpable mass with imaging findings suggestive of a cystic tumour. She had complete surgical resection of the liver mass and isolated peritoneal metastasis. She was tumour-free on imaging at 6 months without adjuvant chemotherapy. An UES should be considered in the differential of large cystic hepatic lesions, with aggressive surgical resection considered when possible. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC3368299/ /pubmed/22690347 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/382723 Text en Copyright © 2012 N. Lightfoot and M. Nikfarjam. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Lightfoot, Nicole
Nikfarjam, Mehrdad
Embryonal Sarcoma of the Liver in an Adult Patient
title Embryonal Sarcoma of the Liver in an Adult Patient
title_full Embryonal Sarcoma of the Liver in an Adult Patient
title_fullStr Embryonal Sarcoma of the Liver in an Adult Patient
title_full_unstemmed Embryonal Sarcoma of the Liver in an Adult Patient
title_short Embryonal Sarcoma of the Liver in an Adult Patient
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3368299/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22690347
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