Key result
Surgical excision successfully treats a rapidly progressing 22-kg giant retroperitoneal liposarcoma.
Demonstrates the feasibility of surgical excision for a massive 22 kg retroperitoneal liposarcoma.
Surgical resection may be feasible for massive retroperitoneal liposarcomas; this Level 5 case leaves open questions of generalizability and durability.
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.
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Hashimoto et al. (2010) studied this question. Surgical excision successfully treated a rapidly progressing, 22-kg giant retroperitoneal liposarcoma in a 41-year-old Japanese man, the largest reported in this population.
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