title: Surgical treatment of a giant liposarcoma in a Japanese man.
abstract: We report a case of a rapidly progressing giant retroperitoneal liposarcoma weighing 22 kg in a 41-year-old Japanese man, successfully treated with surgical excision. To our knowledge, this is the largest liposarcoma in the Japanese population reported in the literature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, 5 Zaifu-cho, Hirosaki 036-8562, Japan.
authors.forename: Yasuhiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hashimoto
authors.forename: Shingo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hatakeyama
authors.forename: Tokushi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tachiwada
authors.forename: Takahiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yoneyama
authors.forename: Takuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Koie
authors.forename: Noritaka
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kamimura
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yanagisawa
authors.forename: Kenichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hakamada
authors.forename: Chikara
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ohyama