title: A surgical management of aortic insufficiency concomitant with mediastinal well-differentiated liposarcoma.
abstract: We present a rare case of a mediastinal liposarcoma concomitant with aortic insufficiency due to myxoid degeneration of the aortic valve. Because the patient's left ventricle was in moderate dilatation and a posterolateral thoracotomy combined with median sternotomy was required in order to perform a complete resection of a mediastinal liposarcoma, it was decided to carry out aortic valve surgery and tumor excision in one operation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Niigata University School of Medicine, Japan. taoki@med.niigata-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Aoki
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sugawara
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamato
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hayashi
mesh_terms: D001022:Aortic Valve Insufficiency / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008080:Liposarcoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged