Case Report
Giant Dedifferentiated Liposarcoma of the Retroperitoneum
In-Hwan Kim and Hyun-Dong Chae*
Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Daegu Catholic University Hospital, Daegu, Korea
- *Corresponding Author:
- Hyun-Dong Chae
Department of Surgery, School of Medicine
Daegu Catholic University Hospital, 3056-6
Daemyung-4-Dong, Namgu, 705-718, Daegu, Korea
Tel: 82536504429
Fax: 82536247185
E-mail: hdchae@cu.ac.kr
Received date: January 13, 2017; Accepted date: February 15, 2017; Published date: February 23, 2017
Citation: Kim I, Chae H (2017) Giant Dedifferentiated Liposarcoma of the Retroperitoneum. J Gastrointest Dig Syst 7:487. doi: 10.4172/2161-069X.1000487
Copyright: © 2017 Kim I, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
A retroperitoneal liposarcoma is a rare tumor. It is classified as several subtypes according to the quantity of lipid, mucoid lipid, and the differentiation of cells. When a tumor is histologically composed of well to poorly differentiated liposarcoma and non-lipomatous sarcoma, it is called a dedifferentiated liposarcoma. Although the prognosis of most liposarcomas are better than other sarcomas, dedifferentiated liposarcoma could be life-threatening because of its higher malignant potential. A dedifferentiated retroperitoneal liposarcoma is a rare disease and there are only a few studies reported, especially in Korea and Asian countries. Despite the relative rarity, these tumors can cause significant morbidity and mortality in affected patients, and complete resection is only the principal treatment. Therefore, we report a case of a giant dedifferentiated liposarcoma of the retroperitoneum in a 66-year-old man who underwent complete resection.
