Successful resection of a huge mediastinal liposarcoma extended to the bilateral thorax

Liposarcoma arising in the mediastinum is extremely rare. Herein we present a case of a 47‐year‐old man with a huge posterior mediastinal tumor that extended to the bilateral thorax. The patient underwent a complete resection of the tumor and experienced an uneventful recovery. Postoperative patholo...

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Autores principales: Lin, Feng, Pu, Qiang, Ma, Lin, Liu, Chengwu, Mei, Jiandong, Liao, Hu, Guo, Chenglin, Liu, Lunxu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2015
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4846629/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27148426
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1759-7714.12285
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author Lin, Feng
Pu, Qiang
Ma, Lin
Liu, Chengwu
Mei, Jiandong
Liao, Hu
Guo, Chenglin
Liu, Lunxu
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Pu, Qiang
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description Liposarcoma arising in the mediastinum is extremely rare. Herein we present a case of a 47‐year‐old man with a huge posterior mediastinal tumor that extended to the bilateral thorax. The patient underwent a complete resection of the tumor and experienced an uneventful recovery. Postoperative pathology finally revealed liposarcoma. The patient underwent follow‐up for 25 months, during which time no recurrence was found.
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spelling pubmed-48466292016-05-04 Successful resection of a huge mediastinal liposarcoma extended to the bilateral thorax Lin, Feng Pu, Qiang Ma, Lin Liu, Chengwu Mei, Jiandong Liao, Hu Guo, Chenglin Liu, Lunxu Thorac Cancer Case Reports Liposarcoma arising in the mediastinum is extremely rare. Herein we present a case of a 47‐year‐old man with a huge posterior mediastinal tumor that extended to the bilateral thorax. The patient underwent a complete resection of the tumor and experienced an uneventful recovery. Postoperative pathology finally revealed liposarcoma. The patient underwent follow‐up for 25 months, during which time no recurrence was found. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2015-06-12 2016-04-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4846629/ /pubmed/27148426 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1759-7714.12285 Text en © 2015 The Authors. Thoracic Cancer published by China Lung Oncology Group and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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title Successful resection of a huge mediastinal liposarcoma extended to the bilateral thorax
title_full Successful resection of a huge mediastinal liposarcoma extended to the bilateral thorax
title_fullStr Successful resection of a huge mediastinal liposarcoma extended to the bilateral thorax
title_full_unstemmed Successful resection of a huge mediastinal liposarcoma extended to the bilateral thorax
title_short Successful resection of a huge mediastinal liposarcoma extended to the bilateral thorax
title_sort successful resection of a huge mediastinal liposarcoma extended to the bilateral thorax
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4846629/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27148426
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1759-7714.12285
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