title: Huge mesenteric liposarcoma.
abstract: Primary mesenteric liposarcoma is extremely rare and is treated by aggressive surgical management i.e. wide excision with adequate margins (in the absence of distant metastases). We report a case of huge slow-growing primary mesenteric liposarcoma in a 52-year-old man, who presented with gross abdominal distension. He was anaemic with pre-operative imaging demonstrating a well-encapsulated huge solid tumour filling the whole abdomen, abutting the anterior abdominal wall without any evidence of distance metastasis or ascites. The patient underwent successful resection of the tumour which weighed 22 kilograms. Histopathology confirmed a well-differentiated liposarcoma with rare mitoses. The patient received full eight cycles of adjuvant chemotherapy. After five years of clinical and imaging follow-up, there was no evidence of metastasis or recurrence of the disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Azad Jammu and Kashmir Medical College, Muzaffaraabad. mikhandr@gmail.com
authors.forename: Mohammad Iqbal
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.forename: Afsheen
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zafar
authors.forename: Maleeha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Younas
authors.forename: Irfan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Malik
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007813:Laparotomy / Q000379:methods*; D008080:Liposarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008643:Mesentery; D008875:Middle Aged; D010534:Peritoneal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed