title: Successful resection of a primary liposarcoma in the anterior mediastinum in a child: report of a case.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Institute of Pulmonary Cancer Research, Chiba University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chiyo
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fujisawa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yasukawa
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shiba
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shibuya
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sekine
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hiroshima
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ohwada
mesh_terms: 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