title: First report of liposarcoma of the spermatic cord after radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer.
abstract: Primary liposarcoma of the spermatic cord (LSC) is a rare neoplasm; there are fewer than 100 cases reported in the English literature worldwide. A seventy-one year-old man, who had undergone radical retropubic prostatectomy (RRP) for localized prostate cancer in November 2004, noticed the enlargement of a mass in the left scrotum. Subsequently he underwent a biopsy of the lesion, which documented suspicion of leiomyosarcoma of the spermatic cord. Left radical orchiectomy was performed extending to the resection margin. The pathological examination showed a dedifferentiated liposarcoma of the left spermatic cord. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of LSC after RRP for prostate cancer in the English literature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Mazda Hospital, 2-15 Aosaki-minami Fuchu-cho Akigun, Hiroshima 735-8585, Japan. uroltateki@yahoo.co.jp
authors.forename: Tateki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yoshino
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yoneda
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shirane