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Case Reports
. 2010:2010:943073.
doi: 10.1155/2010/943073. Epub 2010 Dec 16.

Surgical treatment of a giant liposarcoma in a Japanese man

Yasuhiro Hashimoto  1 , Shingo Hatakeyama, Tokushi Tachiwada, Takahiro Yoneyama, Takuya Koie, Noritaka Kamimura, Takeshi Yanagisawa, Kenichi Hakamada, Chikara Ohyama
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Case Reports

Surgical treatment of a giant liposarcoma in a Japanese man

Yasuhiro Hashimoto et al. Adv Urol. 2010.

Abstract

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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Figure 1
Figure 1
Computerized tomography detected a 43 × 37 × 31-cm tumor in the right retroperitoneum, and the right kidney was deflected greatly to the left ventral side (white arrow).
Figure 2
Figure 2
Chest X-ray showed that elevation of the diaphragm due to rapid growth of retroperitoneal tumor and cardiac enlargement.
Figure 3
Figure 3
Intra-operative findings. The retroperitoneal tumor weighing 22 kg was extirpated.
Figure 4
Figure 4
Histopathological findings of the tumor diagnosed dedifferentiated liposarcoma (HE stain, original magnification x200). (a) Most of the tumor cells consisted of spindle cells with high-grade atypia. (b) Some of which were identified to be lipoblasts in a myxoid background.
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