Successful resection of a primary liposarcoma in the anterior mediastinum in a child: report of a case.
Primary liposarcomas of the mediastinum are very rare. We report on a 13-year-old girl who presented with a huge mediastinal tumor. The tumor was extirpated by a median sternotomy with a right thoracotomy. The tumor included the superior vena cava in the anterior mediastinum. It therefore probably originated from the anterior mediastinal fat tissue, possibly from the thymus. A pathological examination revealed myxoid liposarcoma. At 35 months postoperatively, the patient has not shown any recurrence.
Chiyo
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M
Department of Surgery, Institute of Pulmonary Cancer Research, Chiba University School of Medicine, Japan.
Fujisawa
T
T
Yasukawa
T
T
Shiba
M
M
Shibuya
K
K
Sekine
Y
Y
Hiroshima
K
K
Ohwada
H
H
D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008080:Liposarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008482:Mediastinum / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D013908:Thoracotomy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed