First report of liposarcoma of the spermatic cord after radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer.
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.
Yoshino
Tateki
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Department of Urology, Mazda Hospital, 2-15 Aosaki-minami Fuchu-cho Akigun, Hiroshima 735-8585, Japan. uroltateki@yahoo.co.jp
Yoneda
Kenji
K
Shirane
Takeshi
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