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Case Reports
. 2010 Feb;20(1):69-71.
doi: 10.4103/0971-3026.59760.

Paradoxical hepatic tumor: Undifferentiated embryonal sarcoma of the liver

Kushaljit Singh Sodhi  1 , Elhamy Bekhitt, Christian Rickert
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Case Reports

Paradoxical hepatic tumor: Undifferentiated embryonal sarcoma of the liver

Kushaljit Singh Sodhi et al. Indian J Radiol Imaging. 2010 Feb.

Abstract

Undifferentiated embryonal sarcoma (UES) is a rare primary malignant tumor of the liver that typically presents in late childhood. We report a case of primary UES, which had a typical paradoxical appearance on different imaging modalities.

Keywords: Liver; children; embryonal sarcoma; imaging; tumor.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest: None declared.

Figures

Figure 1 (a,b)
Figure 1 (a,b)
USG of the abdomen (a) reveals a large, complex, solid-cystic mass (arrow) within the right lobe of the liver, appearing predominantly solid in appearance. The color Doppler image (b) shows absence of increased vascularity in the mass lesion (arrows)
Figure 2 (a,b)
Figure 2 (a,b)
Axial (a) and coronal (b) images show a well-defined, solitary, predominantly cystic, mass lesion (arrows)
Figure 3 (a-c)
Figure 3 (a-c)
T2W axial MRI of the abdomen (a) shows the mass to be predominantly hyperintense (arrows), with hypointense areas (arrowheads) within. A T1W axial MRI image (b) shows the lesion to be iso to heterogeneously hypointense (arrows). A contrast-enhanced T1W axial MRI image (c) shows absence of enhancement
Figure 4
Figure 4
Photomicrograph (hematoxylin and eosin) shows a myxoid spindle-cell lesion with numerous bizarre and pleomorphic giant cells (arrow), mitoses and hyaline round globules
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