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Cystic and Calcified Retroperitoneal Sarcoma: A Very Rare Occurrence

[ ISSN : 2473-0688 ]

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Received: 22-Jul-2016

Accepted: 19-Oct-2016

Published: 20-Oct-2016

Case Report | Volume 2 - Issue 4 | Article DOI :

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Dillip Kumar Muduly¹, Kalinga Ketan Naik², Deepak Gupta³, and Atul Agarwal³*

¹ Department of Surgical Oncology, All India Institute of Medical Science, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
² Radiation Oncology, HARMONY Cancer Hospital, Mohali, Punjab, India
³ Surgical Oncology, HARMONY Cancer Hospital, Mohali, Punjab, India

Corresponding Author:

Dillip Kumar Muduly, Associate Professor, Department of Surgical Oncology, All India Institute of Medical Science, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, Email: dillipmuduly@gmail.com

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Retroperitoneal liposarcoma; Adjuvant; Leiomyosarcoma

Abstract

Retroperitoneal liposarcoma is a primary malignant retroperitoneal tumor of mesenchymal cell origin mostly occurring after 40 yr of age. It is one of the most common primary retroperitoneal neoplasms. However retroperitoneal sarcomas are almost always solid, with rare case reports of cystic nature and extensive calcification in a cystic liposarcoma is still very rare. Here by presenting a rare case of Cystic and Calcified retroperitoneal liposarcoma patient who underwent exploratory laparotomy with excision of the lesion and on regular follow-up and disease-free since last 3 years.

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Muduly DK, Naik KK, Gupta D and Agarwal A. Cystic and Calcified Retroperitoneal Sarcoma: A Very Rare Occurrence. SM J Case Rep. 2016; 2(4): 1035.