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liposarcoma

[‚lip·ə·sär′kō·mə]
(medicine)
A sarcoma originating in adipose tissue. Also known as embryonal-cell lipoma; fetal fat-cell lipoma; infiltrating lipoma; lipoblastoma; lipomyxoma; myxolipoma; myxoma lipomatodes.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Dedifferentiated liposarcoma exhibits a wide spectrum of histologic features.
Surgical excision is the mainstay in treatment of liposarcoma, with the objective of wide resection with negative margins.
The value of fat-suppressed T2 or STIR sequences in distinguishing lipoma from well-differentiated liposarcoma. Eur Radiol.
Upper aerodigestive tract liposarcoma: Report on four cases and literature review.
Mass and pericardium both revealed well differentiated liposarcoma which was CDK 4 positive and ALK rearrangement was not seen.
Other possible diagnoses like lipoblastoma, lymphangioma, liposarcoma or lymphangiolipoma should be considered.
Liposarcomas represent approximately 20% of all soft tissue sarcomas and are divided into various subtypes including atypical lipomatous tumors/well-differentiated liposarcomas (ALT/WDLs), de-differentiated liposarcoma, myxoid liposarcoma, round cell liposarcomas, and pleomorphic liposarcomas.
At the same time, the histopathologic examination of the atrial mass showed a high-grade sarcoma consistent with dedifferentiated liposarcoma. The tissue exhibited spindle cells with pleomorphism, multinucleated giant cells, and inflammatory cells.
Histological examination showed mixed well-differentiated and well-dedifferentiated liposarcoma in the primary lesion (Figures 3(a), 3(c), and 3(e)).
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