Recurrence of paratesticular liposarcoma: a case report and review of the literature

Paratesticular liposarcomas are rare tumors that typically affect adult. Diagnosis is very difficult and inadequate surgical excision leads to a high rate of recurrence. We report a case of local recurrence of paratesticular liposarcoma diagnosed six months following surgery. Since there is low resp...

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Autores principales: Gabriele, Raimondo, Ferrara, Giuseppe, Tarallo, Maria Rita, Giordano, Alessio, De Gori, Antonietta, Izzo, Luciano, Conte, Marco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4168198/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25175606
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-12-276
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author Gabriele, Raimondo
Ferrara, Giuseppe
Tarallo, Maria Rita
Giordano, Alessio
De Gori, Antonietta
Izzo, Luciano
Conte, Marco
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description Paratesticular liposarcomas are rare tumors that typically affect adult. Diagnosis is very difficult and inadequate surgical excision leads to a high rate of recurrence. We report a case of local recurrence of paratesticular liposarcoma diagnosed six months following surgery. Since there is low response to adjuvant treatments, extensive surgery remains the only curative approach, as shown by the case described here and the following review of the literature.
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spelling pubmed-41681982014-09-20 Recurrence of paratesticular liposarcoma: a case report and review of the literature Gabriele, Raimondo Ferrara, Giuseppe Tarallo, Maria Rita Giordano, Alessio De Gori, Antonietta Izzo, Luciano Conte, Marco World J Surg Oncol Case Report Paratesticular liposarcomas are rare tumors that typically affect adult. Diagnosis is very difficult and inadequate surgical excision leads to a high rate of recurrence. We report a case of local recurrence of paratesticular liposarcoma diagnosed six months following surgery. Since there is low response to adjuvant treatments, extensive surgery remains the only curative approach, as shown by the case described here and the following review of the literature. BioMed Central 2014-08-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4168198/ /pubmed/25175606 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-12-276 Text en © Gabriele et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. 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 credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Gabriele, Raimondo
Ferrara, Giuseppe
Tarallo, Maria Rita
Giordano, Alessio
De Gori, Antonietta
Izzo, Luciano
Conte, Marco
Recurrence of paratesticular liposarcoma: a case report and review of the literature
title Recurrence of paratesticular liposarcoma: a case report and review of the literature
title_full Recurrence of paratesticular liposarcoma: a case report and review of the literature
title_fullStr Recurrence of paratesticular liposarcoma: a case report and review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Recurrence of paratesticular liposarcoma: a case report and review of the literature
title_short Recurrence of paratesticular liposarcoma: a case report and review of the literature
title_sort recurrence of paratesticular liposarcoma: a case report and review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4168198/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25175606
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-12-276
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