Recurrent mediastinal liposarcoma twenty years after the initial operation: case report |
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| Authors: | Hirochika Matsubara Eiki Mizutani Hideto Okuwaki Satoshi Nagasaka Yoshihiro Miyauchi Noboru Oyachi Shunya Shindo Yoh Dobashi Masahiko Matsumoto |
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| Institution: | Department of Surgery, Facultyof Medicine, University of Yamanashi, Chuo, Japan. |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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