Recurrent mediastinal liposarcoma twenty years after the initial operation: case report.
We report a case of mediastinal liposarcoma, recurrent after 20 years. A 58-year-old man who presented with dyspnea on exertion was found to have a large mediastinal tumor in chest computed tomography (CT), and he was referred to our hospital. He had undergone an extirpation of a mediastinal liposarcoma about 20 years earlier, and we suspected its recurrence. Because the tumor was very large, it was removed in two stages. Histologically it was diagnosed as a recurrence of the previous well-differentiated liposarcoma. Although liposarcoma is one of the most common soft-tissue sarcomas in adults, a mediastinal liposarcoma is rare. Because the recurrence rate is very high, it is necessary to follow up carefully over a long term.
Matsubara
Hirochika
H
Department of Surgery, Facultyof Medicine, University of Yamanashi, Chuo, Japan.
Mizutani
Eiki
E
Okuwaki
Hideto
H
Nagasaka
Satoshi
S
Miyauchi
Yoshihiro
Y
Oyachi
Noboru
N
Shindo
Shunya
S
Dobashi
Yoh
Y
Matsumoto
Masahiko
M
D006801:Humans; D008080:Liposarcoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D013997:Time Factors